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Midland Park NJ, on Tuesday morning, July 30th, a crash on Godwin Avenue in Midland Park resulted in minor injuries for two passengers. The incident involved a large SUV that veered off the roadway and collided with a retaining wall at a church.
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Ridgewood NJ, The driver of a Nissan Rogue lost control of her vehicle while parking Monday morning, 04/15, and slammed into the front facade of a nail salon located on Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood. The driver is reportedly employed at the business she crashed into. No injuries were reported by the driver and the nail salon had not yet opened for business. Ridgewood Police, Ridgewood Fire, and a Village of Ridgewood construction code official responded to the mishap. The Nissan was towed away.
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Ridgewood NJ, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco announced during the week that, “Many many more repaved roads to come!”
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Midland Park NJ, at least one (1) person was hospitalized following an early Wednesday morning, 10/26, crash in which a passenger vehicle slammed into a building after downing a utility pole near the Midland Park Post Office on Godwin Avenue, Midland Park. There appeared to have been moderate damage to a front facing corner of the struck building. The passenger vehicle was totaled; it was removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck. Midland Park Police and Midland Park Fire Department responded to the incident. Ridgewood Police assisted with traffic control.
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Ridgewood Nj, electric power outages in sections of the Village’s west side may have been related to a downed tree in the 300 block of Godwin Avenue that took out two (2) utility poles when it fell early Saturday afternoon, 03/12. No motor vehicles were hit when the tree fell, nor were any personal injuries reported. Godwin Avenue was closed in both directions from Melrose Place to West End/South Murray Avenues as of 1300 hours. Ridgewood Police, Ridgewood Fire Department, and Ridgewood Emergency Services personnel and vehicles responded to the incident.
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Glen Rock NJ, on Wednesday November 17th at 1:18 PM Glen Rock PO Matt Stanislao received a report of a 90-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s who had wandered off from a family member’s home. With the assistance of the Ridgewood Police Department, the woman was located on Godwin Avenue and subsequently reunited with her family members.
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Midland Park NJ, watch out seniors , the Ridgewood blog has learned that the CVS in Midland Park on Godwin Avenue has been filling drug prescriptions all in Spanish. Great if you speak Spanish but leaving English only speakers with no way to verify if the prescription is correct putting some seniors in serious jeopardy .
The report came in on Thrursday and raised a lot of eyebrows given the epidemic of prescription drug abuse gripping Bergen County .Midland Park which according to the 2010 census was 92.82% white and only 6.65% Latino made the even more particularly concerning .
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February 9,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on February 4, patrol units responded to 8 Godwin Avenue on a report of an assault in progress. Upon arrival, patrol located both parties which were involved in the physical altercation. Neither party wanted to sign criminal complaints and both refused medical attention at the scene. While investigating the incident, one involved party was found to have an active warrant for arrest out of North Arlington, N.J. so officers arrested the 19-year-old male from Glen Rock, N.J. The North Arlington Police were notified and the arrestee was later released on his own recognizance after a new court date was provided.
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January 29,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police and Fire Department personnel responded to a one (1) vehicle crash into a commercial structure at 83 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood on Sunday evening, 01/28. No injuries were reported in the crash. Damage to the structure was confined to a support beam associated with a roof overhang. The vehicle’s owner opted to drive it away on its own power.
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October 7,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, The adult male driver of a Jeep SUV was taken into custody, handcuffed, and transported to Ridgewood Police headquarters following a single vehicle crash (into a tree) at the intersection of Godwin Avenue and South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, late night on Thursday, 10/06. A small, crash related engine compartment fire in the Jeep was extinguished by Ridgewood FD members. Ridgewood EMS responded to evaluate the driver; he refused medical aid. The crashed Jeep was removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck.
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September 24,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS units responded to a reported “pedestrian struck” at the intersection of Godwin Avenue and Sherman Place on the evening of Saturday, 09/23. EMS & FD personnel, with the assistance of a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital, attended to an adult male who was critically injured in the incident. He was transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center’s (HUMC) main campus. A second patient, a young female, sustained only minor injuries, but was also transported by ambulance to a hospital. Godwin Avenue between West Ridgewood Avenue and Ackerman Avenue remained closed as of 2130 hours due to an on-going accident investigation in connection with the incident.
