Crime & Safety
WATCH: High Winds Knock Down Huge Tree, Narrowly Misses Cop Car
Sunday's gusts reached 60 miles per hour in parts of Morris County.
BOONTON, N.J. – Police officers have close calls everyday, but on Boonton Township Sergeant avoided serious injury by a hair over the weekend.
Dashcam video shows the patrol car heading down Rockaway Valley Road just as a large tree fell across the roadway.
The officer was able to stop in time, but the driver of a white pickup truck wasn’t, and got his vehicle lodged atop the fallen arbor.
The incident occurred around 8 a.m. Sunday, nbcphiladelphia.com reported, when wind gusts in the area had reached 60 miles per hour.
Both the sergeant and the pickup truck driver were uninjured, the report said.
See the harrowing incident here:
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