RED BANK: BOLLARDS WITHSTAND FIRST HIT
One of downtown Red Bank’s traffic bollards survived its first real-world test when it was struck by an SUV early Monday.
RED BANK: FOUR CHARGED AFTER CRASH
Red Bank Patrolman Stan Balmer and his K9 unit partner Hunter, seen here during a training exercise, helped track down suspects who fled the scene of a crash Thursday evening, police Chief Darren McConnell said Friday.
RED BANK: TWO VIEWS OF VEHICLE THEFT
A pair of videos show a team of thieves stealing of a late-model Mercedes sedan in Red Bank Friday morning.
As seen below, the getaway nearly resulted in a collision with an ambulance.
RED BANK: AWFUL INTERSECTION FIXED
The axle-killing potholes and front-end-scraping dips are gone, and the final touches on a makeover were underway at a key Red Bank intersection Tuesday.
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FAIR HAVEN: BOY ON BIKE STRUCK BY VEHICLE
The accident occurred on Hance Road near Forman Street, just a few blocks north of the Knollwood School, according to a passerby. (Image from Google Maps. Click to enlarge.)
A Fair Haven child on a bicycle suffered “significant” but non-life-threatening injuries when struck by a vehicle shortly after dismissal from school Thursday, officials said.
The unidentified nine-year-old boy, a student at the Knollwood School on Hance Road, appeared to have been hit by a van that remained at the scene of crash, on Hance near Forman Street, a passerby told redbankgreen.
RED BANK: VAN STRIKES RESTAURANT ENTRY
A van struck a two parked vehicles, sending one about 20 feet down West Front Street, according to a person on the scene, and then smashed into the West Front Street entrance of Brothers Restaurant in Red Bank shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday.
RED BANK: LIVE WIRE LANDS ON VAN
Charlie Velazquez said he was “still shaking” after his near brush with death. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Middlesex County man said he was “lucky to be alive” after a live electrical line landed on the van he was driving in Red Bank Wednesday morning. More →
RED BANK: GOING TOPLESS, IF NOT BY CHOICE
Well, there’s one way to cool off in the sweltering heat and humidity: go topless. And for less-than-attentive truck drivers, the North Jersey Coast Line trestle at Hubbard’s Bridge in Red Bank stands ready to accommodate, as it did yet again early Monday afternoon. It was not immediately known if the man at right was the driver. (Photo by Ken Kalada. Click to enlarge.)
TWO INJURED IN LITTLE SILVER CRASH
Two drivers were injured and traffic around the Little Silver train station was tied up for about an hour after two cars collided at rush hour Monday morning, police said.
The crash, at about 7:44 a.m., involved a 2002 Mercedes-Benz that was heading north on Branch Avenue and attempting to make a left turn onto Sycamore Avenue, and a 2010 Hyundai that was headed south on Branch, said police Chief Dan Shaffery.
ACCIDENT DEMO DRIVES HOME SAFETY LESSON
RBR students look on as emergency personnel perform an extrication of a ‘victim’ trapped in a vehicle. Below, Joy Jones displays a portrait of her son Steven as she speaks to students about his death at the hands of his drunk best friend. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge)
By STACIE FANELLI
Little Silver police were the first on the scene Friday morning at Red Bank Regional, where three cars lay smashed on the pavement. Sirens blaring, at least a dozen more emergency vehicles lined up in front of the school minutes later.
No one was hurt. In fact, the entire senior class stood around the “crash” site, struggling to hold back laughter when a drunken driver stumbled dramatically out of the first vehicle.
RE-REGRADING A PROBLEM CROSSROADS
A paving machine lays down a fresh layer of asphalt at the intersection of Rumson Road and Bingham Avenue Tuesday morning. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Just a year after a re-engineering aimed at reducing accidents, a dangerous Rumson intersection is getting another reworking.
This time, though, it’s a fix-job that won’t cost taxpayers anything, says Monmouth County Engineer Joe Ettore.
WEEKEND WRECKS LEAD TO DWI CHARGES
A street sign impaled a tree on Broad Street as a result of predawn accident that destroyed a utility pole and led to a shutdown of the road for several hours Sunday. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Two motorists face charges of drunk driving after their involvement in accidents four hours apart over the weekend, Red Bank police said.
ACCIDENT VICTIM REMAINS IN CRITICAL CARE
A Red Bank woman remained in critical condition Wednesday night following an accident in which she was struck by a truck while crossing West Front Street on foot.
According to police Captain Darren McConnell, Laura Martin, 40, was heading north-to-south at West Front and Maple Avenue at about 2:53p when she was hit by a New Jersey Transit truck.
FALL VICTIM MEDEVACED TO TRAUMA CENTER
Emergency personnel prepare to transfer a fall victim from an ambulance to a waiting medevac helicopter at Fair Haven Fields Friday night. According to an unconfirmed report, a 14-year-old boy fell off a roof at a residence on Hance Avenue Road in Fair Haven shortly before 9p. Further details were not immediately available. (Click to enlarge)
CROSSING GUARD STRUCK; INJURIES MINOR
Andy DePonti speaks to the motorist who struck him seconds after the accident. (Click to enlarge)
A Red Bank crossing guard suffered minor injuries when he was struck by a vehicle that backed up into him in a crosswalk Thursday afternoon.
ACCIDENT SNARLS TRAFFIC
The upper part of a sheared utility pole rests on live electrical lines on Maple Avenue in Red Bank, opposite the Atlantic Club. (Click to enlarge)
A mid-afternoon accident that broke a utility pole on Maple Avenue threatened to cause rush-hour traffic jams in Red Bank on Wednesday.
APPLIANCES COMMITTING SUICIDE, PERHAPS?
This edition of the Accidental Photographer happens to be about an actual accident. Or, what appears to have been an accident, though no one reported it to the police.
RT. 35 CRASH SENDS CAR OVER DIVIDER
One of two cars involved in the accident jumped the divider and ended up on its roof. (Photo by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge)
Police and other emergency personnel responded to a two-car accident on Route 35 in Middletown Thursday evening that sent one vehicle over the highway divider.
DWI CHARGED AFTER CAR LANDS IN NAVESINK
A member of the Red Bank Fire Department’s scuba and dive team inspects the vehicle after it smashed through a fence at the foot of Maple Avenue. (Photo by Carl Colmorgen; click to enlarge)
A Staten Island man was arrested on a drunk-driving charge after he drove his car into the Navesink River in Red Bank early Friday morning.
Steve Barranca, 52, was the lone occupant of the 2008 Lexus when it smashed through a boardwalk fence at the northern end of Maple Avenue and fell about 10 feet into the river, says Captain Darren McConnell.
PICKUP TRUCK OVERTURNS ON EAST SIDE
For the second time in three days, a vehicle overturned in an accident in Red Bank Tuesday.
Here’s a description of what happened in the most recent accident, courtesy of police Captain Darren McConnell:
On Tuesday, June 15 at approximately 5:24 pm a vehicle driven by Lois Prince, 65 years old, of Medford, NJ collided with a vehicle being driven by Jeanne Schaffer, 50 years old, of Howell.
DWI CHARGED IN EARLY MORNING WRECK
The lone passenger had to be extricated after the car smashed into a tree on Broad Street. (Click to enlarge; photos courtesy of Peter Lindner)
A Hazlet man was arrested for drunken driving and his Red Bank passenger wound up in the hospital following an early morning car crash on Broad Street, police say.
Brian Cunningham, 38, was arrested after the 12:45a accident, in which his southbound 2008 BMW sedan slammed into a tree just south of the Reckless Place/Harding Road crossing, says Captain Darren McConnell.
NO INJURIES AS SUV OVERTURNS IN ACCIDENT
A Ford Expedition lies on its side on River Street, at the corner of Leighton Avenue, following the crash. Below, passenger Maddy Pulignano and her grandmother, Marge Murray. (Click to enlarge)
A 10-year-old girl, already in a leg cast from an injury this week, and her grandmother were safely extricated from an SUV following a Red Bank accident that left the vehicle lying on its side Saturday afternoon.
Maddy Pulignano of Middletown and her grandmother, Marge Murray, of Highlands were unhurt in the accident, in which their SUV was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Leighton Avenue and River Street around 3:30p.
Maddy, it turns out, was already in a cast with a broken leg, having been run over, she said with a laugh, by a classmate driving a go-kart on a class trip this week.
PEDESTRIAN STRUCK ON BROAD STREET
A Highlands woman was hit by a car as she crossed Broad Street in Red Bank this afternoon, police said.
The 66-year-old woman, who police did not identify pending notification of her family, was taken to Riverview Medical Center with a leg injury, said police Captain Darren McConnell, who heads the department’s traffic and safety unit. Her injuries are not life-threatening, he said.
ROWERS RESCUED AFTER SQUALL FLIPS SHELLS
One of two shells manned by teen rowers arrives at a residential dock on Fisher Place after flipping in the Navesink. Below, a distraught woman, said to be a coach, recounts the incident for police. (Click to enlarge)
A sudden wind storm that blew through the Red Bank area turned into an ordeal for eight teenaged rowers as two shells flipped in the Navesink River late Tuesday afternoon.
All the rowers, said to be female members of the Ranney School‘s crewing club, were plucked from the water safely, though all were taken by ambulance to Riverview Medical Center for checkups.
“They were all cold and wet,” said Captain Darren McConnell, spokesman for the Red Bank Police Department. He said the girls were roughly 15 years old.
RUMSON ROAD ACCIDENT
Emergency personnel responded to a one-car accident on Rumson Road just east of Bingham Hill Circle in Rumson shortly before 2p Tuesday afternoon. No information was immediately available about the crash, in which a sedan struck a tree head-on. (Click to enlarge)