Four high school football players were killed, and four others were injured, in a car wreck on the Garden State Parkway on Saturday morning. Two of the teens were ejected from the vehicle in the crash when their SUV flipped and rolled over several times; the eight boys, all from Mainland Regional High School, were on their way to a team breakfast to celebrate the start of football season. more ›

One survivor of the SUV crash on the Garden State Parkway spoke out yesterday about the tragedy that claimed three teenagers' lives. Victor Whiteaker, who was in the SUV driven by his fiancee's father, said, "All of a sudden, I saw a black car fly past us and cut us off. It must have been going 150 mph! I heard her dad [Dimitrios Iliopoulos] scream, ‘Vinny! Vinny!’ as the car started weaving back and forth. I put my hands over my head and felt the car flip." more ›

Yesterday three Staten Island families were struck by tragedy when an SUV carrying seven people overturned on the Garden State Parkway. A 2003 Ford Expedition driven by Dimitrios "Jimmy" Iliopoulos, 54, "swerved and then smashed into a right-hand guardrail" and "overturned at least twice." Iliopoulos' sons Hlias, 18, and Chrystoph, 13, and their friend Eric Colligan, 15, were thrown from the SUV into the highway and died. more ›

A NJ State Trooper was found fatally shot in his patrol car earlier this morning on the Garden State Parkway. NJ.com reports, "an officer came upon a trooper car at about 7:30 a.m. on the exit ramp from the parkway to Route 34 south [near Wall Township]. A trooper was found unresponsive in the car, officials said." The State Police said, "Some irresponsible news outlets have published unconfirmed reports of manhunts and gunfights. This information is not correct. At this point, we are not looking for any additional vehicles or suspects in connection with the investigation." CBS 2 sources say it may have been a suicide. more ›

No matter that the Taconic State Parkway wrong-way crash claimed 8 lives when a minivan driver, apparently drunk and high, slammed into another SUV—driving the wrong way while possibly drunk is still happening. According to the Asbury Park Press, a driver was arrested—authorities believe he was intoxicated—after causing two wrong-way accidents on the Garden State Parkway at 5:20 p.m. yesterday. The driver "was going northbound in the southbound lanes" near Hazlet, NJ. "After striking one car, the wrong-way driver hit a second vehicle in the southbound express lanes before going through the guardrail and down into a ravine. The driver of the second car is pregnant and was being treated for a minor injury." more ›

The NJ Turnpike Authority will be raising tolls on the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. The Star-Ledger reports that the "first hike comes in December, and the second comes in 2012....A drive along the full length of the Turnpike, which now costs $6.45, will more than double to $13.75 by 2012. Driving the Parkway from top to bottom also will more than double in four years." While the state government raised tolls to fund road improvements and fund other projects, the NJ Motor Truck Association criticized the plan, "If you're paying $8 extra per truck and you have a fleet of 100 trucks, that's an extra $800 per day. How many small businesses can absorb that?" more ›

Evening commutes are already painful, but a few dozen motorists in NJ had a terrible night when their cars broke down because they filled up with some bad gas. Apparently some Lukoil stations got a "shipment of bad gas," forcing drivers to pull onto the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway and Palisades Interstate Parkway. more ›

The Daily News reports that "scarecrow cars" are being used by the NYPD to deter crime, much to the dismay of the police union. Scarecrow crows are empty radio cars that are stationed on highways in hopes of scaring drivers to straighten up with their driving. more ›

Governor Jon Corzine expects to be discharged from the hospital next week. Corzine has been at Cooper University Hospital where he has been recuperating after severe injuries after the SUV transporting him (where he sat seat-belt-less in the front passenger seat) crashed on the Garden State Parkway. more ›

NJ Governor Corzine showed the Associated Press that he's doing pretty well, sitting up (in red track pants, which is rather Fidel-ish) and reading his many get well cards. These are the first photographs of Corzine since he was in a car accident that left him critically injured and with 15 broken bones. Earlier this week, Corzine was still stuck in bed, but now he's able to leave bed and sit up. The cards look like they are from NJ school children; we hope that if they're making the cards during the school day, then there better be seat belts also drawn on them somewhere! more ›

NJ Governor Jon Corzine has been moved from intensive care as his condition improved to stable. The governor continues in his second week of recovery after a car crash on the Garden State Parkway which revealed his SUV (a state trooper was driving) was going 91 MPH while Corzine was not wearing a seat belt in the front passenger seat. However, the governor's chief of staff Tom Shea said that Corzine will not be getting back to work any time soon, "The state is in very good hands with acting Gov. (Richard) Codey." Shea added, "[Corzine]'s not as grouchy as you might expect him to be." more ›

With the NJ State Police confirming that NJ Governor Corzine's SUV was going 91 MPH on the Garden State Parkway during a crash that left a seat-beltless Corzine critically injured, it was only natural for reporters to ask Mayor Bloomberg his thoughts. And the NY Times' Diane Cardwell says that his "nanny tendencies...were on full display" more ›

How much of an emergency is getting back to the Governor's mansion for a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team? Because the NJ State Police confirmed that Governor Corzine's SUV, which crashed last Thursday along the Garden State Parkway, was going 91 MPH, well over the 65 MPH speed limit. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large sinkhole at University Ave. in the Bronx, a carjacking on Foch Blvd. in Queens, and a hanging on Park Ave. in Manhattan.
• Not only was Gov. Corzine not wearing his seatbelt, his state trooper driver was doing 91 m.p.h.(!) right before the crash. The speed limit on the Garden State Parkway is 65 m.p.h.
• Nine people were injured this afternoon when the Staten Island Ferry made a "heavy landing" at the St. George terminal. Neither the boat nor dock was damaged and the incident is being attributed to the weather and currents.
• Mayor Bloomberg's appointment as head of the Word Trade Center Memorial Foundation last October is proving very profitable. Fundraising had stalled before his appointment, but the organization's fund has more than doubled since Bloomberg came aboard, to more than $300 million.
• A 16-year-old was fatally shot in the neck yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn. Police are searching for another teenager, but there is no known motivation for the killling.
• Site onNYTurf has a map titled "Pedicouncil or Pettycouncil" that shows where City Council members stand on a law restricting pedicabs in the city.
• The Brooklyn bookstore owner who plead guilty to helping fund terrorist organizations was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
• Brownstoner salivates at real estate porn involving a limestone mansion in Fort Greene.
• Curbed reports on the Chinatown apartment on Grand St. that suffered an impromptu demolition party as a hipster describes [we] "Tore the place down." There's also a crazy video of the incident taken by a passerby wondering why glass was flying out the window.
• Authorities are wondering how an off-duty parole officer staying late after a party in Asbury Park, NJ managed to accidentally discharge his weapon and shoot three restaurant workers with a single shot.

NJ Governor Jon Corzine may taken off a ventilator that has been helping him breathe since his Thursday night car accident on the Garden State Parkway. Yesterday, doctors removed fluid from his lungs (considered a routine procedure) successfully, and today, they will be performing another surgery to continue to clean up wounds from his left leg - when the femur broke, it punctured his skin. Corzine remains in critical but stable condition. more ›

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An SUV carrying New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine crashed on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. After undergoing extensive surgery, Corzine has a broken leg, twelve broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a broken breastbone; he also has numerous facial lacerations. He is in stable condition and remains in the ICU, but faces many months of rehabilitation. State Senate President Richard Codey, who took over for NJ Governor James McGreevey when he stepped down, will be acting governor indefinitely. more ›

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