Passenger Ejected After Paterson Driver Slams Parked Car, Utility Pole On Tonnelle Avenue
The driver and passenger of a Nissan sedan were hospitalized after their car slammed into another vehicle and then a utility pole over the weekend on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, authorities said.
Nathaniel Dickerson, 31, of Paterson, was heading northbound in a 1999 Nissan Maxima when he hit a 2012 Honda Civic parked at 910 Tonnelle Avenue then the pole around 3:35 a.m., Sunday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.
Dickerson's passenger, a 31-year-old Johnston, PA man, was ejected and seriously injured, and taken to Jersey City Medical Center.
Dickerson was also injured a…
Lawsuit: Family Of Newark Airport Worker Killed By Propeller Sues Airline, Port Authority
The family of a Newark Liberty Airport worker who was struck by an airplane propeller and killed has filed a lawsuit saying an absentee spotter and failed safety provisions are to blame for her death.
Jacqueline Mkalama, 53, of Orange, was walking on the tarmac at Gate 25 in Terminal A when she was struck in the head by the spinning propeller of a Bombardier DHC-8202, on Sept. 2, 2017, according to the suit filed last month.
The airport's operator, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, “failed to provide a safe place and means to perform the work, reads the suit, filed by the…