Crime & Safety

Three Injured in Overturned Auto

Witnesses: Mercedes sideswiped after passing red light

Three women sustained minor injuries after their car turned over in a collision at Broadway and Yerger Road on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Police said that according to witnesses, the silver Mercedes passed a red light heading eastbound on Broadway and was sideswiped by a black vehicle making a turn. The Mercedes hit the divider on Broadway, spun sideways hit a pole and rolled, according to the witness accounts.

The driver and two passengers inside the Mercedes were taken to Englewood Hospital, while three individuals who were riding in the other car—a father, his son, and the son's friend—were not injured, police said.

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Fair Lawn's police and fire departments, as well as the rescue squad and ambulance corps, responded to the scene. Traffic was initially backed up heading eastbound on Broadway .

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