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A 38-year-old Wayne resident died days after a Honda CRV he was in crashed into a telephone pole on Ratzer Road on Wednesday, prosecutors announced Friday.

Antonio Cruz was in the car with a woman and a child when the vehicle crashed into a telephone pole, authorities said.

Meanwhile, another Honda CRV, driven by a Paterson resident, collided with a different telephone pole across the street from Cruz’s crash site.

Antonio Cruz and the child were taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center with serious injuries, prosecutors said. The woman and child remain in the hospital’s care, prosecutors stated Friday.

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