Hit-and-run crash at Starbucks on South Avenue

Heard on: Union NJ Law Dispatch Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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44, you're responding.

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It's going to be the Starbucks on South Avenue for an MVA leaving the scene.

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Call reports happened less than 3 min ago.

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White Ford van headed west on South Avenue after striking my caller's car.

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Fronting Starbucks.

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44, just be advised, the car gave me a plate of X-ray Juliet Lima Charlie 80,

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(number withheld). It's coming back to a 2010 Ford Econovan to a marino's painting out of Linden.

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44.

00:37

44 Central, can you go over the description of the car again?

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Car reported to be a white painting van with a New Jersey plate X-ray Juliet Lima Charlie 80

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Quebec Marinos painting out of Linden.

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And the kind of car the caller was.

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He was parked in front of Starbuck's on South Avenue.

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I told him to flag you down.

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I will give him a call back.

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Simple.

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Disregard, Central.

01:14

Simple.

8/14/2026 04:16 AM

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South Ave, Cranford, NJ 07027

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, officers responded to a reported hit and run vehicle crash near the Starbucks on South Avenue in Cranford. A white Ford painting van with a New Jersey plate reportedly struck a parked car and drove west on South Avenue shortly before the call.