Residents of the neighborhood of Clark Street, on the Bloomfield-Glen Ridge border, woke up this morning to discover that someone had played a game of bumper cars overnight. Here’s what a tipster wrote in:
Last night a car created a path of destruction in Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. I am not sure where it started, but it continued down Thomas Street where a driver hit no less than 3 parked cars. The driver turned onto Clark Street in Glen Ridge where they hit another car. He/she continued onto Bloomfield Ave where they crashed in front of the Lee Miles auto center on Bloomfield Ave near Liberty Street.
Just two cars, according to Glen Ridge Police Chief John Magnier, who wrote:
A 75 year-old Bloomfield resident was traveling East on Clark Street and struck a legally parked car near Bloomfield Avenue. The vehicles were stuck together, the driver hit the gas to separate the cars, after breaking free the car ran the stop sign at Bloomfield Avenue/Clark Street and headed into Bloomfield where it hit another parked car.
The driver was issued the following summonses: Careless/leaving the scene of an accident/Running a stop sign, returnable to Glen Ridge Municipal Court.
Really, that’s all? What did Bloomfield charge him with????
Last night my girlfriend and I heard a crash and went outside to find this 75 year old’s car wrapped around a utility pole. Bloomfield Ave was closed until about 11pm or maybe later. The pole was unsafe, and PSEG pushed it over and allowed it to crash into Bloomfield Ave. This morning, we found an orange cone where the pole used to be.
There were no less than 5 cop cars on the scene, and two others a block away closing off bloomfield ave. All for a 75 year old…..
Meanwhile, a mile up the road people are getting held up at gun point. Glad I moved out of Montclair
Before the jump I thought it was going to be a DWI story, but instead it was DWO.
The state’s already (wisely) put a curfew on young drivers. When are they going to institute mandatory retesting for older drivers?
Awww the rating system has arrived. I urge all people who post please DO NOT participate in rating any post in protest.
I just rated you a “thumbs down”.
shouldn’t we be allowed to rate the initial post as well?
what is the deal with this rating hassle…
Is the rating anonymous?
The voting bit is silly. And ROC is absolutely right, we should be able to vote on the original post as well. (If only to learn how truly others feel about slow news days!)
Also, what’s with the tweets being displayed now? Who really cares about them anyway? I did notice over the last few days, however, that they’ve included salty words which others have been in fact warned about using in their posts. (Come back, hansmeier, much is forgiven!)
Is it really such a good idea to rate posts? The moderators have been trying to cut down on ongoing hostility between specific commenters; won’t rating comments just incite more hostility?
Another point about rating comments: If someone objects to–or disagrees with–something I say, I’d like to have the chance to respond to it (not necessarily in a nasty way). An anonymous click on the “Thumbs Down” doesn’t afford me that opportunity.
Evidently the driver wanted to get himself to Lee Miles, so everything would be fine.
How on earth did my above post garner 23 votes??
You’re up to 24 votes, banana
I appreciate that this story was posted after I submitted the tip. However, I am disappointed at the details. To add to Jimmytown’s comment, this was quite and incident, spreading two towns. Was there no information available from the Bloomfield PD? Or did we not ask? I am starting to feel like if it didn’t happen in Montclair or Glen Ridge, it doesn’t get time. There seems to be quite a bit of investigative reporting for Montclair incidents. Not so much elsewhere.