Tag: Kearny

TRUCK JUMPS GUARDRAIL; Motorist Hurt

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, May 6, 1992

The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B04

A 39-year-old River Edge man was in critical but stable condition Tuesday night with head trauma and internal injuries after a tractor trailer careened out of control and crashed into three cars, including a state police cruiser.

Alexander Belkind was pinned inside his car after the trailer jumped the guardrail on the New Jersey Turnpike and went into oncoming traffic. After part of his mangled car was cut away, he was taken by state police helicopter to the University Hospital in Newark, said Sgt. Dan Cosgrove, a spokesman for the state police.

A trooper and two other motorists who were injured were treated and released.

The trailer, driven by William Arthur Parson of Virginia, was southbound about 8:30 p.m. Monday in the turnpike’s western extension in Kearny when it struck a truck tire and rim lying in the roadway, Cosgrove said.

The trailer then struck a southbound pickup truck driven by James Farrell, 28, of Bayonne, spinning the pickup around and turning it over several times. Before the pickup truck came to a rest, it had sideswiped a trooper car, which was parked behind a disabled vehicle in the left lane.

The tractor trailer, owned by Great Coastal Express Inc. of South Holland, Ill., skidded across the southbound lanes, the median, the center guardrail, and into the northbound lanes where it crashed into Belkind’s car.

Trooper Darryl Humphrey had moderate injuries to his left elbow and forearm, Farrell’s left collarbone was fractured, and Parson injured his elbow.

ID: 17376360 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)

MAN CRASHES CAR IN POLICE CHASE; CAUGHT IN KEARNY; JUVENILE ALSO HELD

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, December 7, 1990

The Record (New Jersey) | Four Star B | NEWS | Page B03

A 19-year-old East Orange man and an unidentified juvenile were arrested Thursday after they crashed a stolen car, following a chase that began in the Lincoln Tunnel and ended in Kearny, police said.

Kasin Andre Williams, of 32 South Munn Ave., and the juvenile were charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant, reckless endangerment, and eluding police, Port Authority Officer Rich Lofstrom said.

Williams also faces a charge of possession of stolen property, pending location of the owner of the car, which was stolen Wednesday in East Orange, police said.

The juvenile also was charged with possession and consumption of alcohol in a motor vehicle and was to be sent to the Hudson County Juvenile Detention Center in Secaucus, Lofstrom said. Williams was to be held in the Hudson County Jail in Jersey City on Thursday.

Lofstrom said he and Officer Raymond O’Brien began the chase when they spotted Wiliams weaving across lanes in the Lincoln Tunnel about 1 p.m. When Williams refused to pull over, they pursued him onto the New Jersey Turnpike.

A state police officer joined the chase, and alerted Kearny police when Williams got off the turnpike at Harrison Avenue. The chase ended when Williams crashed into a fence on Passaic Avenue, Lofstrom said.

Lofstrom said Williams told police he did not stop because he did not have a driver’s license and the car was stolen.

Caption: (Not in Three Star Passaic) PHOTO – WARREN GOLDBERG / SPECIAL TO THE RECORD – Kearny police examining the car driven by an East Orange man who told them he stole the vehicle.

ID: 17325908 | Copyright © 1990, The Record (New Jersey)