A BMW X1 veered off the road, slammed into a tree and landed on its side at the intersection of Prospect Street and Harristown Road in Glen Rock on Saturday, Nov. 7, leaving the driver uninjured. Workers from a passing concrete mixer stopped and helped free the driver.
The single-vehicle crash sent Glen Rock police, firefighters and EMS to the intersection, according to a report from TAPinto. The late-model SUV landed on its side after striking the tree. Citywide Towing was called in to right the BMW and haul it away from the scene.
Concrete Mixer Crew Helps Free Driver
TAPinto's account, published under its DeMarco Report section, credited Boyd A. Loving with the crash photos and information, while the article's photo was credited to Rebecca Greene. The piece was authored by Jerry DeMarco.
Harristown Road Has Seen Rollovers Before
This isn't the first time a vehicle has overturned near that stretch of Glen Rock. In June 2023, Hawthorne Rescue 5 was called in as mutual aid to a rollover crash with entrapment on Harristown Road near Hamilton School, according to hawthornefire.org. Responding departments worked together to pull the victim from the vehicle and hand them over to EMS.
Nearby Route 208 has also been the site of repeated rollovers affecting both Hawthorne and Glen Rock. A two-vehicle rollover on Route 208 southbound in February 2026 triggered a total highway shutdown and sent two people to the hospital, as reported by theridgewoodblog.net. That crash brought traffic to a standstill between Goffle Road in Hawthorne and Harristown Road in Glen Rock, with police, fire and EMS crews from both towns responding.
A separate incident on Route 208 caused significant delays on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, after a white Cadillac SUV flipped onto its roof while traveling southbound between the Lincoln Avenue and Harristown Road exits, per theridgewoodblog.net. At least one occupant from that crash was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance, though the extent of injuries was unclear, and Glen Rock and Hawthorne police and fire departments, along with EMS, responded to that incident as well.
Saturday's crash on Prospect and Harristown adds to that pattern of rollovers in the area, though the driver escaped injury.
