This Day in History: 1940-08-02

A typical traffic jam on a summer weekend resulted in an accident and a summons for a Newburgh driver, Marcis Greene. As usual the traffic backed up from the traffic light in Ramapo on Friday evening. The traffic was at a standstill through the Hillburn by-pass and into Mahwah. Greene simply did not stop and crashed into the last car in the line, that of Edward Byrne of North Bergen, damaging it badly. When Chief of Police Charles E. Smith arrived on the scene he issued a summons for reckless driving to the Newburgh motorist. (Bristow)