A driver was found with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head on the westbound upper level of the George Washington Bridge Tuesday night, after Port Authority police officers responded to reports of a one-vehicle crash just after 7 p.m. The westbound upper level remained closed after the incident.
The case turned from a crash response into something far more serious when officers reached the scene on the George Washington Bridge. The victim, a male, was taken to Englewood Medical Center, and it was not clear at the time of the report what his condition was.
The key question left open by the incident is how the driver was shot and whether the crash and the shooting were connected. For now, the facts point only to a violent scene on a major crossing between New York and New Jersey, with the westbound upper level still shut down after Tuesday night’s response. That closure, tied to a single vehicle and a wounded driver, is what made this incident matter immediately.
