Nutley Fall Victim Expected To Make Full Recovery

A Nutley man who fell off the Passaic Avenue Trestle Bridge on July 27 is expected to make a full recovery.

NorthJersey.com reported that “the man’s condition is improving” following his tumble off the bridge onto the jagged rocks below.

According to Nutley Police Det. Sgt. Anthony Montanari, the 23-year-old resident was walking on the 30-foot train trestle north of Vreeland Avenue when he fell over the side and landed on some jagged rocks in the shallow creek below.

He lay there injured until a 12-year-old girl and her friends spotted him.

“They were looking at him and trying to decipher whether or not it was an actual human being in the water,” Montanari told Patch.

The girl went home to tell her father, who went back to verify her story and then immediately called police around 6 p.m.

When emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found the man incoherently moaning and unable to speak.

He was transported to University Hospital with a serious leg injury.

“We don’t want to speculate on how it happened,” Montanari told Patch. “But we can conclude that there was nobody else up there with him at the time.”

Police were unable to determine if the man was intoxicated due to his injuries, and incident is under investigation, he added.

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