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Category Archives: Accidents

WHERE’D THAT BRIDGE COME FROM?
Yes, again. Westbound this time. (Photo courtesy of Gregg Helfman) This one’s definitely in the dog-bites-man category. But hey, it’s a slow news day, and as long as we’re onContinue reading "WHERE’D THAT BRIDGE COME FROM?"
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July 21st, 2009 @ 10am
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RETHINKING THE FENG SHUI
A furniture delivery truck nearly got stuck beneath the railroad trestle over West Front Street near Hubbards Bridge in Red Bank this morning. The driver backed the vehicle out, turnedContinue reading "RETHINKING THE FENG SHUI"
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July 20th, 2009 @ 10am
WORKER FALLS FROM RBC STEEL
Emergency personnel tend to the injured man. A man fell about 13 feet onto a concrete pad at a construction site at Red Bank Catholic High School this morning. TheContinue reading "WORKER FALLS FROM RBC STEEL"
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July 17th, 2009 @ 9am
CAB INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT
A taxicab ended up on the sign island in front of Strollo’s Lighthouse at North Bridge and Shrewsbury avenues in Red Bank Wednesday evening after a two-vehicle accident. Details aboutContinue reading "CAB INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT"
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July 16th, 2009 @ 6am
WOMAN UNINJURED IN RUMSON SUV FLIP
Rumson police are investigating the cause of an accident Friday night in which an SUV rolled over on Bingham Avenue shortly after the conclusion of the annual fireworks show. TheContinue reading "WOMAN UNINJURED IN RUMSON SUV FLIP"
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July 6th, 2009 @ 1pm
GRANT WILL BOOST ROAD ENFORCEMENT
The state funds will pay overtime for additional traffic enforcement for one month. Red Bank police expect to roll about 20 additional street patrol shifts this month under a stateContinue reading "GRANT WILL BOOST ROAD ENFORCEMENT"
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July 1st, 2009 @ 12pm
CAR FLIPS ON SHREWSBURY
At least two people were taken away in ambulances after an accident left a car overturned in front of the Wilde Rover rugby clubhouse on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red BankContinue reading "CAR FLIPS ON SHREWSBURY"
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July 1st, 2009 @ 7am
OWNER VOWING TO REBUILD BOWLING ALLEY
Firefighters attach a hose to a hydrant near the corner of Newman Springs Road and Broad Street while the bowling alley burns in the distance. Memory Bowling owner Alex MelamuduvContinue reading "OWNER VOWING TO REBUILD BOWLING ALLEY"
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June 15th, 2009 @ 6am
English teacher Andrew Forrest, left, and guidance counselor Chris Desiere are stabilized after the roof of their vehicle was cut off around them. Red Bank Regional seniors got a graphic demonstration this morning of what can go wrong when people...
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June 1st, 2009 @ 10am
The truck that left these tracks in the baseball infield at East Side Park also tore up a portion of the new soccer field sod. Later, the truck got stuck in Marine Park. Among some English words you don't want...
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April 16th, 2009 @ 3pm
The squad's house on Spring Street. Below, a voting district map. (Click to enlarge) Voters from two Red Bank districts will be directed to a new polling station starting with next week's school board elections following a decision by the...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 7am
A view of the Count Basie Field grandstand. A Red Bank man remained hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries Monday, two days after police say he jumped off the side of the Count Basie Field grandstand. Manuel Trejo-Martinez, 24,...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 6pm
George Lynch and Rich Hardy of DPW do the honors, above. Below, Hardy paints a new stop line and Nick Piscitelli shows off one of the new lenses for the blinking traffic light. (Click to enlarge) It's official: there's now...
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April 2nd, 2009 @ 3pm
The dispatcher's desk at police headquarters won't be staffed nights and weekends, officials acknowledge. A late-entry proposal from Little Silver to take over police dispatching duties won approval by Fair Haven's council Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
Work on a $1.54 million state Department of Transportation project to improve traffic flow and safety conditions at a key Red Bank intersection is now scheduled to begin March 16, a week later than previously announced. The job, which is...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 3pm
Then-Mayor Ed McKenna in December, 2006. Former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna's car struck a pedestrian crossing East Front Street outside Riverview Medical Center last night, Red Bank Police report. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, 49-year-old borough resident and hospital...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
The view north along Bridge Avenue at Chestnut Street. Soon, motorists on Bridge will have to come to a full stop, as those on Chestnut already do. A couple of updates on traffic matters here in hububby Red Bank: Capt....
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February 24th, 2009 @ 11am
Emergency workers take crash victim Michael Maxted to a waiting ambulance. A 22-year-old Red Bank man was injured late Friday afternoon when an SUV crashed through the facade of the Cluck U Chicken fast food business on Water Street. Michael...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 5pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has the obituary for Vincent DiMicelli, 56, who was killed in the Wednesday night crash involving three cars on Newman Springs Road, on the Red Bank-Tinton Falls border. Here's the obit: Vincent Thomas DiMicelli, of Little...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 7am
An investigator photographs an overturned car involved in Wednesday night's fatal crash. A Little Silver man died in last night's three-car crash on Newman Springs Road, according to a report by the Asbury Park Press. Fifty-six-year-old Vincent Dimicelli was pronounced...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 9am
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...