N.J. police officer dies after snowmobile accident in New York

A New Jersey constabulary serviceman died aft a snowmobile accident successful New York implicit the weekend.

Steven Fernandez, a 39-year-old an serviceman with the Ridgefield Park Police Department, was earnestly injured Saturday, his household said.

The New York State Police said the incidental occurred astir 2:07 p.m. connected a way adjacent Harrietstown, successful Franklin County adjacent New York’s borders with Vermont and Canada. Police said the snowmobile drove disconnected the trail, down a steep embankment and struck aggregate trees. He was airlifted to the ICU astatine the University of Vermont Medical Center where helium died.

Early Sunday morning, his parent Susan Kruger Fernandez wrote connected Facebook, “My bosom is broken.”

No different accusation was given.

“Steve was a large bull and an adjacent amended person,” the Ridgefield Police Department said successful a statement. “His beardown ties to our tiny assemblage wherever helium grew up are unmatched.

“He was an unbelievable person, a large friend, a cleanable idiosyncratic and a benignant psyche who we volition miss each azygous day. Steve would privation america to observe his beingness and not mourn his death. We inquire you to bash the same.”