🚨Wrong-way crash on Route 80 in Totowa killed 2 people
🚨Victim’s family says coverage is unfair
🚨Accusing media of portraying the off-duty firefighter driver as a hero
TOTOWA — The family of a woman killed in a head-on crash on Route 80 with an off-duty firefighter is upset at coverage they say puts her in a poor light.
The crash happened at 2 a.m. Jan. 5 when Joanne Furman, 60, of Norwich, Connecticut, was headed west in a Buick SUV with her daughter, Imani Furman, 24, and her 2-year-old son. Traveling in the opposite direction but on the wrong side of the road was Albin Fermin, 30, in a Honda sedan. He struck the SUV head-on near Minnisink Road in Totowa.
Furman’s daughter and Fermin were killed in the crash. Joanne Furman was seriously injured while the toddler suffered injuries described as moderate…