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