Three Cars, NJ Transit Bus Collide and Send Eight to Hospital
Traffic was delayed for more than two hours on the border of Montclair and Glen Ridge on Friday.
Eight people were sent the hospital Friday afternoon as three cars and a New Jersey Transit bus collided in a pile up on Bloomfield Avenue. Around 1:25 p.m. in front of the Palace Car Wash on the border of Montclair and Glen Ridge, a Ford Taurus traveling in an eastbound lane on Bloomfield Avenue reportedly hit a Toyota traveling in the same direction, according to Montclair Police. The impact caused the Toyota to then crash into a Mini Cooper traveling in a westbound lane which then struck a New Jersey Transit bus also traveling westbound. There were about 25 people on the NJ Transit bus. The Ford Taurus came to rest over the embankment near the entrance of the Palace Car Wash. The driver of the Ford Taurus was found unconscious …
roberta baldwin
8:03 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
This stretch of Bloomfield Ave. is a lethal and unregulated one, with cars shooting by when the light turns green at the Ridgewood Ave/Bloomfield Ave intersection in Glen Ridge at one end and Pine St. and Bloomfield Ave. at the other. Add to the mayhem the commotion at the two exits and entrances to a busy mall on one side of the road and the ubiquitous lineup of cars at the car wash protruding … more ›