Health & Fitness

Driver Nearly Crashes Into Westfield Home: Report

The man had a medical episode and was taken to the hospital, police said.

WESTFIELD, NJ — A man drove over the lawn of a home on Shackamaxon Drive in Westfield on Thursday evening and stopped just under a window displaying a child's rainbow drawing, according to photos published with a news story on TAPinto yesterday. Police and witnesses told the publication that the man had had an apparent medical incident when he drove onto the lawn just after 5 p.m. A witness said he saw the man thrashing, apparently having a seizure.

No one else was injured in the incident and the man was transported to a local hospital, police said. Read more about it here.

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