Crime & Safety
Overturned Car on Ewing Ave Exit
No major injuries reported; bystander suffers cardiac event.
The exit ramp from Route 208 North to Ewing Avenue has been reopened following a rollover car accident at around 2:15 p.m. today. Four people were taken to the hospital, one with minor injuries, two children as a precaution, and one for a possible heart attack.
According to police, the driver, a 75-year-old Hackensack man, flipped the car on the exit ramp. His two grandsons, ages 10 and 12, both from Franklin Lakes were also in the car. The driver sustained a bloody nose and was taken to the hospital; his grandsons had no obvious injuries, but were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident. A passing motorist who stopped to assist suffered some type of cardiac event while helping the passengers out of the vehicle. He was taken to the hospital.
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Three ambulances were dispatched to the scene, two from Franklin Lakes and one from Wyckoff, as well as the Franklin Lakes Fire Department.
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