Secaucus Police Det. Sgt. Mike Torres said the the woman, a Cherry Hill resident, is "recovering well" at Hackensack University Medical Center.
SECAUCUS -- The 84-year-old woman who was injured in a wrong-way crash on Route 3 Wednesday morning is now in stable condition at a Bergen County hospital, police said.
Secaucus Police Det. Sgt. Mike Torres said the the woman, a Cherry Hill resident, is "recovering well" at Hackensack University Medical Center two days after she was taken to the hospital in critical condition following the 7:45 a.m. wreck on the Hackensack River bridge in Secaucus.
Secaucus police said Wednesday that the woman was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of the busy highway, causing the crash with a BMW headed in the proper direction. The driver of the BMW, a Secaucus man, was also taken to Hackensack UMC in stable condition, police said previously.
Few details have emerged as to why or how the woman was driving the wrong way on the heavily-trafficked bridge, which connects Secaucus and East Rutherford. Today, Torres stressed that the crash is still under investigation.
"The traffic division is still working to obtain how or why she got onto Route 3 westbound," Torres said.
Torres said no summonses or charges have been filed.
The 84-year-old woman had to be extricated from her Dodge Neon by the Secaucus firefighters, police said. The vehicle was mangled in the crash and the top of the car appeared to be cut off to remove the woman from the vehicle.
The crash kept all but one lane on Route 3 west closed for more than two hours, and caused major delays on both sides of the highway.
Journal staff writer Corey McDonald contributed to this report.