{"id":351892,"date":"2026-09-20T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351892\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:32:32","slug":"saddle-brook-township-officer-seriously-hurt-in-i-80-hit-and-run-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351892\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddle Brook Township officer seriously hurt in I-80 hit-and-run \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer in New Jersey was struck by a driver while performing a traffic stop early Sunday morning, New Jersey State Police said. <\/p>\n<p>The Saddle Brook Township officer had reportedly pulled someone over around 4:30 a.m. along Interstate 80. Officials say an unknown car heading eastbound hit the officer and the grey Nissan Maxima stopped by the cop. <\/p>\n<p>The driver who struck the officer did not stick around, according to New Jersey State Police. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said the injured officer was seriously hurt, while the three occupants of the Nissan were OK. <\/p>\n<p>Police did not have a description of the suspect vehicle but asked anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact authorities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer in New Jersey was struck by a driver while performing a traffic stop early Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1066,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-351892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}