Men Suffer Concussions, Injuries in Three-Car Accident on 287 South
Traffic was backed up for about a mile on and around Route 287 Tuesday afternoon, police said
Three men from Kingston, N.Y., were injured in a three-car accident on 287 in Mahwah Tuesday afternoon, according to police. At about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, “a woman coming off the New York State Thruway into Jersey switched from the right to center lane, and struck a tractor-trailer that was in the center lane,” Mahwah Lt. Phil Tangel said Tuesday evening. “The tractor trailer then swerved, and hit a pick-up truck in the left lane. The pick-up hit the center median, causing some serious damage [to the truck]." Three adult males — two brothers and a friend — traveling in the pick-up were injured in the crash, police said. Two suffered a concussion and one back and leg injuries, Tangel said. All three were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital…
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6:59 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012
This is a terrible interchange with a high crash rate to begin with, and y'all fighting against the mall should also fight to have this terrible interchange completely reconstructed to stop the wrecks and terrible backups that occur during rush hour and weekends... This will get much worse as traffic volumes increase in the future... more ›