17-year-old driver and 14-year-old passenger injured in a fiery collision with a tree at Linden Street and Highwood Avenue in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Teens Hospitalized After Car Slams Into Tree, Bursts Into Flames In Glen Rock
The driver had a 14-year-old passenger with him when, according to witnesses, he “traveled at an unsafe speed within the confines of the Village of Ridgewood along Carlisle Terrace, Ivy Place, and Linden Street” around 6:30 p.m. last Thursday, Nov. 2, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said.
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