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the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Paramus NJ, Firefighters from Paramus FD Engine Company #1 extinguished a Thursday evening, 01/07, motor vehicle accident related car fire on Route 17 northbound near Linwood Avenue, Paramus. An SUV traveling on Route 17 northbound careened off the highway and caught fire after mounting a pedestrian bridge’s concrete staircase before coming to a halt. The vehicle’s adult male driver was transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Center’s main campus with non life threatening injuries. A tow truck removed the charred vehicle from it’s predicament. Ridgewood Fire Department, Ridgewood Police, Ridgewood EMS, and Ridgewood Emergency Services personnel responded to assist their Paramus Fire Department, Paramus Police, Paramus Rescue Squad, and Paramus EMS counterparts. Traffic on Route 17 northbound at the crash scene was limited to a single lane as emergency and vehicle recovery responders worked.
Speeding on north bound and southbound route 17 is a big issue
On a dangerous Curve and Elevation
Change Trucks are Flying down southbound side as cars entering roadway and Gas Stations SB
People die there.
I stay in the middle lane when driving at night on R17.
Glad everyone was ok!
Give the bill to the state. Dirty rt ,17
Maybe he thought the foot bridge was a U-Turn.
Or maybe his car wanted to self identify as a pedestrian.
Another COVID related hospitalization.