UPDATE: A high school student who ran after causing a crash that gravely injured a Teaneck mom near her home was seized by township police and will be prosecuted, authorities confirmed.
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella didn’t in any way identify the underage teen driver because of state juvenile justice laws.
However, local sources said he’s a Bogota High School student who was with a classmate when the 2015 Ford Explorer he was driving slammed into a 2022 Nissan Rogue at the intersection of Palmer and Sherman avenues — three blocks from the high school — at 7:52 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25.
The impact sent the 40-year-old driver’s Rogue into a nearby house, witnesses told police, adding that the teen appeared to be speeding.
The victim — a mother of two school-age children who lives in the neighborhood — was extricated by Teaneck firefighters.
She was brought to Hackensack University Medical Center, where Musella said she was being treated for life-threatening injuries.
Contrary to some local news reports, juveniles aren’t arrested in New Jersey — they are detained.