There’s been another rollover accident on the eastern end of Bloomfield Avenue. This one occurred Friday morning at about 2:15 a.m. The car was traveling east on Bloomfield and veered off the roadway into the rocks just past Mountain Auto Body, in between Pompton and Sunset avenues. The car rolled over onto its side...
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Verona Police are asking drivers to avoid the intersection of Bloomfield and Pompton Avenues today. Apparently, an early morning crash toppled a utility pole across Bloomfield Avenue in the vicinity of Mountain Auto Body and Don Johnston’s Subway sandwich place. Traffic has been reduced to one lane in each direction while crews replace the...
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A Honda pickup truck veered off course on Grove Avenue as it headed toward Bloomfield Avenue late Sunday night and crashed into Congregation Beth Ahm. The synagogue’s lawn sign was destroyed, as was some landscaping, and a large hole left in the front facade. There is a visible crack in the wall inside the...
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If you need a reminder why it is very important to clean every bit of snow and ice off your car this winter, this is it. The driver of this car, a Verona native, was passing a truck to get around it because he thought the ice on top of the truck looked dangerous. “Just...
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Chris Burns took this picture on Bloomfield Avenue by Cameco Meats on his way up to the Hilltop. Thankfully, this one looked a lot worse that it was. The Verona Rescue Squad was called to check on one driver, Police Captain Mitchell Stern tells us. But he believes the driver was not taken to...
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Lakeside Avenue was shut down just after 3 p.m. on Monday after a Volvo XC70 SUV traveling south on Lakeside hit an unoccupied parked Honda Accord. The Volvo then rolled over and came to rest on its roof. Verona Police Chief Doug Huber says the accident “looked worse than it was.” Verona police and...
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You probably know by know that Verona’s main thoroughfare can be a bit dicey at times. Bloomfield Avenue gets a lot of cars and, as in all towns, there’s not a lot of room between street-side parking and the traffic. Kevin Toscano was in an accident on Bloomfield Avenue this weekend and sent us...
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Oooops. That’s about all you can say about a story in yesterday’s Star Ledger. The paper reported that a 14-year-old girl from Verona took her mother’s car this past Saturday and drove it out onto Route 46, where she got into a pre-dawn crash. Not much in the way of details, but you can...
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If you don’t hit the brakes at the crosswalks in town today, your wallet could be taking a big hit. Effective April 1, New Jersey motorists must stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk–and remain stopped until pedestrians are completely across. New Jersey law previously only required motorists to yield to pedestrians, contributing to the...
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Sidney Lichter, the Linden and Grove intersection crossing guard who was hit by a pickup truck during last month’s snowstorm, had hip surgery yesterday. According to a spokesperson at University Hospital, Lichter is in “guarded” condition in its Surgical Intensive Care Unit and will probably be in the hospital for a while recovering. Meanwhile,...
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