RED BANK: WOMAN FLEES STOP, CRASHES CAR
An Atlantic Highlands motorist was injured after she fled an attempted stop by Little Silver police and crashed into a tree in Red Bank early Christmas morning, police said.
RED BANK: NO INJURIES IN SALON CRASH
No injuries were reported after a car crashed through the facade of the Luxe Nail Salon on North Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to police Chief Darren McConnell.
RED BANK: VAN STRIKES RESTAURANT ENTRY
A van struck a two parked vehicles, sending one about 20 feet down West Front Street, according to a person on the scene, and then smashed into the West Front Street entrance of Brothers Restaurant in Red Bank shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday.
RED BANK: RAIL SPAN CLAIMS TWO MORE
Some things you can count on in this life: death, taxes and embarrassing encounters between oversized vehicles and the West Front Street railroad bridge in Red Bank.
SANDY HOOK: SURF FISHERMAN DIES
A fisherman died after being rescued from the surf off Sandy Hook Wednesday morning, a Gateway National Recreation Area spokeswoman said.
RED BANK: CAR PLOWS INTO VNA BUILDING
Emergency responders working to remove the victims, who were trapped inside their vehicle. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge)
[This post has been updated since originally posted.]
By JOHN T. WARD
Two people were injured after the vehicle in which they were traveling plowed into a Red Bank office building Thursday morning.
SANDY HOOK: CRASH VICTIMS COPTERED OUT
Two of four people injured in a single-car crash on Sandy Hook were taken to a hospital by helicopter Tuesday night.
RED BANK: THREE CRASHES LEAD TO ARREST
A Red Bank woman was arrested Monday after a wild motor-vehicle pursuit by police in which she crashed her SUV three times, taking down a utility pole in the process, Chief Darren McConnell said Tuesday.
The incident began around 5:30 p.m., when Officer Michael Baron, while on patrol in the area of Broad Street and Pinckney Road, saw a white Honda SUV crossing the median into oncoming traffic while heading south on Broad Street, McConnell said in a prepared statement.
RED BANK: MULTIPLE INJURIES IN CRASH
Red Bank police reported “numerous” injuries, none of them life-threatening, after a three-car crash early Saturday afternoon.
RED BANK: MORGAN PICKS UP THE PIECES
Tracy Morgan brings his standup act to the Count Basie stage for two shows Friday night.
“I’ve tapped into something, man, that nobody else can talk about,” Tracy Morgan said in an interview with a national wire service earlier this year. “I went to the other side and came back bearing gifts… and I’m gonna share all those gifts with my fans.”
In case you missed the headline-making news, the Emmy nominated cast member of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock was referencing his near-death experience in a June, 2014, limo crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, an accident that killed his friend James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, and left Morgan comatose with multiple injuries, necessitating a lengthy process of physical therapy and speech rehabilitation.
Undaunted, the Bronx-born “cringe comic” (and co-star of films like Cop Out and the forthcoming Fist Fight) has taken to the road once more on a route that leads to Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre Friday night.
RED BANK: VEHICLE CLIPS UTILITY POLE
A piece of a utility pole was left dangling in air after the lower portion was struck by a vehicle on Mpale Avenue near Monmouth Street in Red Bank Wednesday afternoon. Information on the crash was not immediately available, but there appeared to be no injuries resulting, said a person on the scene. As of 3:38 p.m., police had closed off northbound Maple Avenue between Chestnut and Monmouth Street to facilitate repairs. (Reader photo. Click to enlarge)
LINCROFT: MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN CRASH
By JOHN T. WARD
[Update, May 17: The victim in this crash was Marc Gardner, 62, of Long Branch, police said.]
A motorcyclist was killed in a one-vehicle crash in Lincroft Sunday afternoon, police said.
The crash occurred on West Front Street just east of Shady Oaks Way at 2:52 p.m., according to Deputy Chief Steve Dollinger.
RED BANK: CRASH LEAVES EIGHT DISPLACED
The stolen vehicle, obscured by darkness at left, traveled up the driveway and struck the side of a house on Drs. Parker Boulevard. The impact tore out the electrical service and caused structural damage to the house, as seen below. (Photo below by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Eight people were said to have been displaced Monday after a stolen vehicle, fleeing police, crashed into their Red Bank home early Monday morning.
As previously reported by redbankgreen, the unidentified driver fled the scene on foot after racing a stolen sedan south on Bridge Avenue and smashing into the house at 133-135 Drs. Parker Boulevard at about 1:10 a.m. Middletown and Red Bank police had attempted to intercept the car, but couldn’t catch it, authorities said.
RED BANK: CHASE ENDS IN ROLLOVER CRASH
A police pursuit of what turned out to be a stolen vehicle ended in a rollover crash in Red Bank early Monday morning, police Chief Darren McConnell told redbankgreen.
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN HIT IN CAR CURB-JUMP
The scene on Wallace Street shortly after the accident, above. The vehicle also hit a gas regulator valve, seen below, though no leak was immediately detected. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
A campaign worker for an outlier presidential candidate was injured when a car jumped a curb in downtown Red Bank Friday afternoon.
The vehicle also struck a storefont natural gas regulator that had been moved above-ground three years ago, over the vehement objections by town officials that doing so created a safety hazard.
RUMSON: FIRED COP SUES TO GET JOB BACK
Damien Brennan’s vehicle after the September 21, 2014 crash in Red Bank. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
A former Rumson cop who crashed his personal vehicle into the back of a Red Bank store while enroute to his moonlight gig guarding Bruce Springsteen’s mansion has sued for reinstatement, according to a lawsuit.
Sergeant Damien Brennan, 38, of Howell, was axed from his borough job last month, even though a DWI charge against him had been dropped, according to the suit, first reported by More Monmouth Musings.
RED BANK: TWO CYCLISTS IN CAR ACCIDENTS
In one of two Red Bank accidents involving bicyclists, a 14-year-old boy wound up in the emergency room Wednesday.
According to police Chief Darren McConnell, the unidentified boy was traveling west in the eastbound lane of Harding Road when he collided with a car emerging from Tower Hill Avenue at about 10 a.m.
FAIR HAVEN: FATAL CRASH CASE SETTLED
An outpouring of support for cyclist Cole Porter, below, included a bicycle painted pink – his favorite color –and left at the scene of the accident that led to his death. (Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The widow and children of Cole Porter, a Shrewsbury man who died as a result of injuries suffered in a crash during the 2013 Tour de Fair Haven bike race, have settled a lawsuit in the matter for $7.1 million, NJ.com reported Thursday.
Agreement on the deal was reached June 3 as jury selection was about to begin for a trial over the civil suit in New Brunswick, according to the report.
RED BANK: MALL TO INSTALL SAFETY BOLLARDS
The City Centre strip mall has seen four incidents in which cars have driven into storefronts in recent years, the latest on March 3, below. (Photos by John T. Ward, above, and Carl Colmorgen, below. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The owner of Red Bank’s City Centre strip mall hopes to put an end to unwanted drive-thru service.
After four incidents in recent years in which vehicles jumped the curb and crashed into storefronts, John Bowers will install safety bollards, he tells redbankgreen.
RED BANK: CAR CRASHES INTO CHICKEN JOINT
Two employees reported non-serious injuries after a car jumped the curb and plowed through the storefront of the Cluck U chicken restaurant on Water Street in Red Bank shortly before noon Tuesday, according to police Chief Darren McConnell. The driver was identified as Liv Wilson, 71, of Holmdel. No summonses were immediately issued, and the crash is under investigation by Patrolman Matthew Ehrenreich of the RBPD traffic safety unit.
The City Centre strip mall, in which the restaurant is located, has seen this type of crash before, including one involving Jersey Mike’s Subs last October and another involving Cluck U in 2009, in which a customer was injured.
The building remains structurally sound, McConnell said. (Photo by Carl Colmorgen. Click to enlarge)
MIDDLETOWN MAN DIES IN CRASH
The accident occurred at Shadow Lake Drive and Hubbard Avenue. (Map by Google Maps. Click to enlarge)
A Middletown man was killed Tuesday morning when he car struck a utility pole as he suffered a medical episode, township police reported.
RED BANK: RUMSON COP’S DWI CASE DROPPED
By JOHN T. WARD
A Rumson police officer charged with drunk driving after crashing his car into the back of a Red Bank store in September was convicted on a lesser charge Thursday after a blood sample was found to be inadmissible in court.
Sergeant Damien Brennan, 37, of Howell, pleaded guilty in Red Bank municipal court to reckless driving, his attorney confirmed to redbankgreen.
FAIR HAVEN: KOCH RECALLED WITH HUMOR
Pallbearers with the casket of Councilman Jerome Koch, below, who died Sunday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Friends and family eulogized Fair Haven Councilman Jerome A. Koch, Jr. with love and humor in the form of some of his favorite aphorisms Thursday, four days after he died from injuries suffered in a bicycling accident on River Road.
Setting aside the “nightmare” circumstances of Koch’s death, one of his four children told a packed Church of the Nativity that her father “would be telling us to knock off with the crying.”
FAIR HAVEN: KOCH DIES FROM INJURIES
By JOHN T. WARD
Fair Haven Councilman Jerome Koch died Sunday, one day after he was was critically injured in a bicycling accident on River Road.
Borough police reported Koch’s passing in a one-paragraph statement issued at 7 p.m.
Koch, was riding westbound near Elm Place when he was struck by a vehicle headed in the same direction at about 3:25 p.m., police said.
FAIR HAVEN: KOCH CRITICAL AFTER CRASH
Councilman Jerome Koch speaking during a council meeting at the Knollwood School in November, 2011. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Fair Haven Councilman Jerome Koch was critically injured in a bicycling accident on River Road Saturday afternoon, according to Mayor Ben Lucarelli.
Koch, a retiree who has served on the council since 2006, was riding westbound near Elm Place when he swerved into the traffic lane and was rear-ended by a vehicle at about 3:30 p.m., Lucarelli said.
“It was a severe impact,” said Lucarelli, who arrived on the scene moments later.