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Ridgewood Nj, a medical episode may have been the cause of a Tuesday morning, 05/17, crash involving a fully loaded box truck on Route 17 southbound near the Garden State Parkway in Paramus. The truck veered off of the highway and came to rest in a storm water retention basin. Despite the mishap, no damage was visible on the vehicle. Paramus Police, Paramus EMS, and New Jersey State Police Troop “D” Garden State Parkway Patrol, Bloomfield Barracks units and personnel responded to the incident. An employee of the truck’s owner drove it away after a heavy duty tow truck removed it from the retention basin. Police at the scene provided no information regarding the condition of the truck’s original driver.
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Neptune NJ, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority will pay $250,000 to settle a driver’s lawsuit that was filed after a former State Trooper downloaded an intimate video from her cellphone during a 2016 traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway.
Continue reading Two Juveniles Charged for Fire that Shut Down Garden State Parkway
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Paramus NJ, according to the Bergen County sheriff’s office, a man got into a private ambulance while it was unattended on hospital property and drove off. The man who had recently been released from a detox program at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center was arrested Wednesday in connection with the theft of an ambulance from the parking lot.
Continue reading NJ State Police Arrest Man Who Fired a Gun at a Motorist on Garden State Parkway
photos courtesy of the Clifton Fire Department
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Clifton NJ, early Wednesday afternoon the Clifton Fire Department and the New Jersey State Police received a call for a vehicle that drove off the Garden State Parkway. E6, T2 and NJ State Police arrived and found a vehicle that drove well off the road and down an embankment at Cambridge Crossing townhouses. The driver was taken to an area hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Continue reading Car drives off Garden State Parkway and crashes into Clifton townhouse
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Paramus NJ, drivers in New Jersey are going to pay in more for tolls, as of January 1st. Last month, the authority that runs the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway approved an increase of 3% to help fund capital projects.
Continue reading New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway Tolls Going Up January 1st
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Paramus NJ, New Jersey State and Paramus Police are still looking for the driver of a motorcycle that was found wrecked and on fire on the Garden State Parkway southbound in Paramus on Monday night.
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Garfield NJ, NJ State police say a man from Garfield was killed after being struck by a car while walking on the Garden State Parkway.
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Paramus NJ, with the opening of The Valley Hospital in Paramus scheduled for the end of 2023, The Valley Hospital Foundation has announced a $125 million fundraising campaign, Serve. Care. Transform. The Next Chapter of The Valley Hospital, in support of the project. The Foundation also announced that Vincent Forlenza, Chairman, Valley Health System Board of Trustees; Carol Gillespie; and Michael A. Ietta, M.D., Bergen Anesthesia Group; will serve as Campaign Co-Chairs.
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Recently, we received this letter from a passing motorist who witnessed Trooper Jamarr Morris helping a little boy and his two dogs on the Garden State Parkway:
