NORTH HUDSON – A driver was arrested after hitting a car in James J. Braddock North Hudson Park and then fleeing south on Boulevard East, crashing into three other vehicles along the way.
Officers from the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the scene of the crash in Braddock Park about 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 5. There they found a damaged 2004 Subaru station wagon partially on the sidewalk. The driver, a North Bergen resident, told the officers she was traveling east on Riverview Drive South inside the park “when a silver 4-door Mercedes-Benz went around her vehicle, into oncoming traffic, then swerved into her, hitting the front of her car,” according to a press release from Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari.
The Subaru was disabled by the crash and wound up on the sidewalk while the Mercedes continued south on Boulevard East.
The sheriff’s office broadcast a BOLO (be on the lookout) with a description of the Mercedes. Simultaneously, 911 calls began coming into the Sheriff’s office and several municipal police departments about a vehicle driving erratically on Boulevard East.
After hitting three other vehicles, the Mercedes came to rest at 49th Street and Boulevard East. The driver, a 34 year-old man from Parsippany according to northjersey.com, was arrested by Weehawken police.
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