NY Man Dies After Trying To Walk Across Route 4

PARAMUS, NJ – A 36-year-old man died after being struck and run over by a car Saturday night while he was trying to cross a busy Bergen County highway, according to police.

Officers were dispatched around 9 p.m. to the stretch of Route 4 between Forest Avenue and Kinderkamack Road in Paramus on a report of a hit pedestrian, said Deputy Chief Robert Guidetti.

The man, Ryan O’Keefe, a Wappinger Falls, N.Y. resident, was crossing south on Route 4 West when he was hit in the highway’s center lane by a Subaru, the deputy chief said.

He was then run over by a Chrysler, Guidetti said.

Responding officers performed lifesaving measures on the man, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center where he was later died, the deputy chief said.

The crash remains under investigation and no complaints have been issued at this time, Guidetti said.

The deputy chief also pointed out that there is a pedestrian bridge near the scene of the incident, which is meant to “allow for pedestrians and bicyclists to safely cross a busy road without conflicts.”