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FIVE INJURED WHEN DRIVER CRASHES CAR INTO TREE

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, March 29, 1992

The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | A05

Authorities are trying to determine what caused a 20-year-old borough man to lose control of a car he was driving and crash into a tree, injuring himself and his four passengers, Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy said Saturday.

Doug Brino of 702 Shawnee Drive, the driver, was being treated for unspecified injuries Saturday at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. A 16-year-old girl sitting behind him and a 17-year-old girl next to her were also being treated at the hospital, Fahy said.

The front-seat passenger, a 15-year-old girl, and Brian Matos of 1173 Valley Road, Wayne, the owner of the car, were taken to University Hospital in Newark by helicopter.

A University Hospital spokeswoman said Matos was released Saturday but declined to release information on his companion because of her age.

A Valley Hospital supervisor said Brino and one girl were treated and released, but that the other girl was admitted in serious condition. She declined to say which girl it was.

The crash occurred about 9:40 p.m. Friday on a darkened bend of McCoy Road, Fahy said.

Fahy said none of the car occupants wore their seat belts and that investigators found a half-empty bottle of vodka underneath the front seat of the car. No charges had been filed in the case.

ID: 17372794 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)

HOMEMADE PLANE CRASHES; FRANKLIN LAKES MAN KILLED; CRAFT HIT CABLE OVER U.S. PARK

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, October 25, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B03

A 26-year-old Franklin Lakes man was killed Wednesday when a single-engine plane he was flying over a national park hit a television cable, landed upside down in the Delaware River, and broke into pieces, authorities said.

Laurence W.P. Rizzo died instantly from the impact of the experimental, homemade aircraft on the water, Pike County Coroner James J. Martin said.

Rizzo had been a flight instructor for about 15 months at Sussex Airport. He had taken off from the airport at about 2 p.m., airport manager Paul Styger said. The plane crashed about 50 minutes later in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pike County, chief ranger Barry Sullivan said.

Rizzo was pulled from 4 feet of water, Sullivan said. Martin pronounced him dead at 3:12 p.m. He said Rizzo died of a broken neck.

Rizzo was alone when the plane crashed. The tail section separated from the rest of the fuselage.

Styger said Rizzo, who was born and raised in Paterson before moving to Franklin Lakes in 1976, had been teaching flying at the airport while building up time to apply for work as either a corporate or commercial airline pilot. Rizzo was a 1990 graduate of LeTourneau University in Long View, Texas.

Witnesses told Stroudsburg radio station WSBG-WVPO the plane had been flying low and appeared to have engine trouble as it dipped over the river, striking a cable line.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash, agency spokesman Duncan Pardue said Thursday.

Pardue described the aircraft as a wood and fiberglass plane built from a kit.

This article contains material from The Associated Press.

Keywords: PENNSYLVANIA; AVIATION; ACCIDENT; DEATH; FRANKLIN LAKES; MAN; LAURENCE RIZZO

ID: 17359084 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)