Driver sent to hospital after crashing into Paterson building
The 24-year-old driver was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being pinned by the dashboard.
Driver sent to hospital after crashing into Paterson building The 24-year-old driver was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being pinned by the dashboard. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/paterson/2019/01/09/driver-sent-hospital-after-crashing-into-building-paterson/2522853002/
Kaitlyn Kanzler and Tariq Zehawi, North Jersey Record Published 7:55 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 6:42 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019
A Honda sedan crashed into a building on First Ave in Paterson, on Wednesday January 9, 2019. The driver was extricated and sent to the hospital. (Photo: Tariq Zehawi, Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com)
The driver of a Honda sedan was taken to the hospital after he crashed into a commercial building at Madison and First avenues in Paterson early Wednesday morning.
Paterson police said the car was wedged into the building and the 24-year-old driver was pinned under the dashboard. The call came at 5:42 a.m., said Deputy Chief Pablo Del Valle. Firefighters had to cut the driver out of the car, and the trunk was cut off the car as well.
The victim was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, Del Valle said.
The crash shut down First Avenue while firefighters and police rescued the driver. The road closure caused backups on Route 20.
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