A driver in a Fair Lawn crash Tuesday morning involving two NJ Transit buses and a car on Broadway shortly before 9 a.m. attempted to flee the scene after reporting the accident, officials said.

Fair Lawn Sgt. Brian Metzler said the call came in at 8:43 a.m.

The officers, after speaking to the drivers of an Access Link bus and an NJ Transit passenger bus, determined that a 2010 Nissan Altima was traveling east on Broadway at a high speed and attempted to drive between the Access Link bus in the left lane and the NJ Transit bus in the right lane.

The Nissan first struck the Access Link bus, then hit the NJ Transit bus, which was attempting to move onto the safety shoulder of the roadway, police said.

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The crash disabled all three vehicles, the sergeant said.

Only one passenger was aboard the buses and was not injured, nor were the drivers, Metzler said.

After reporting the crash to police, the driver fled the area on foot, Metzler said. But he wasn't at large for long.

At about 9:05 a.m., Fair Lawn police found the driver on Rosalie Street at Banta Place, not far from the crash site.

Police arrested Craig Tomlinson, 23, of Paterson and planned to charge him with reckless driving, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash, driving while intoxicated and operating with a suspended license, police said.

Tomlinson’s New Jersey driver’s license was inside the Nissan, police said. He was being held at Fair Lawn police headquarters.

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