Jersey City police car smashed in hit-and-run on Monmouth Street

By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal
February 07, 2010, 2:50PM

A Jersey City police cruiser similar to this one was smashed in a hit-and-run accident this morning.

A Jersey City police cruiser was "T-boned" in a hit-and-run early this morning, police said.

Police are looking for the driver of a gray, four-door 1994 Honda Accord that went through a red light at Monmouth Street and slammed into the side of a patrol car that was driving along Christopher Columbus Drive at around 3 a.m., Police spokesman Stan Eason said.

The police officers, who were "shaken up" by the accident, were taken to Jersey City Medical Center and treated for "bumps and bruises," he said.

The side of the police car was left with serious damage in the the "mid and rear sections," police said.


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Here is a picture of a 1994 Honda Accord taken off the web

Someone ran a red light in Jersey City???? I cannot believe it's true!

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Yeah really. I guess it's only news when it happens to a police car. I was nearly hit at the same intersection Thursday morning, though I was a pedestrian crossing Monmouth. A left-turning vehicle coming off Columbus gunned it while I was in the crosswalk. I literally kicked the vehicle as I jumped back.

Columbus Drive is dangerous, and it'll only get worse when it becomes a 6-lane highway. Monmouth is dangerous too. Cars seem to fly at 40-45 trying to make that light.

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I'm glad the officers are alright but it makes you think. If a car can run a red light... t-bone a police car with 2 cops in it (and a radio) then speed off and at least, so far, get away with it...then what would happen if this happened to a regular old civilian in a car or a pedestrian for that matter? Seems to me the perp would probably never get caught. Scary!

I'm glad the cops are ok, but I have to ask who had the right of way?


I ask cause any number of you living in Jersey City notice on a daily basis that the PD like to run the red lights, when they're not responding to a call.. This is true daytime, as well nighttime.