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Two Crashes Tie Up Traffic on Linwood Avenue Near Route 17
April 25,2013
Boyd A. Loving
4:03 PM
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police were called to the scene of two (2) separate motor vehicle crashes within 45 minutes of one another on busy Linwood Avenue near Route 17 Thursday afternoon. The most serious of the incidents occurred in front of 933 Linwood Avenue, and resulted in two (2) cars being wrecked in T-Bone type crash, with the driver of one requiring ambulance transportation to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood (the driver of the second vehicle refused medical aid).
The second crash happened on the westbound Linwood Avenue Route 17 overpass. In that crash, two persons were injured. Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS personnel responded to both incidents; Paramus PD assisted with traffic control. Traffic on Linwood Avenue near Route 17 was tied up for over an hour as a result of two incidents.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving