Scene Around: A P.O. Drive-In — Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect

Call it an accidental Fair Haven drive-in.

With all the protests of drive-up service and it’s alleged traffic implications that came with prospects of the new Dunkin’, no one ever imagined there’d be a drive-in post office.

While the official police report on the Tuesday night accident is not yet in, Link News broke the story with a single photo late last night.

An as-of-yet unidentified driver drove right through the front of the Fair Haven Post Office.

Rumson resident Paul Kellogg reported to R-FH Retro that he was taking his wife to work when he drove past and “saw the Fair Haven Acme parking lot filled with police cars, ambulances and at least 3 fire trucks. The lot was full of police, firemen and EMTs. What happened I don’t know. Cars were slowing down to rubberneck at the scene but that’s all. I went past it again coming home on River Road. Never seen so many emergency vehicles in Fair Haven before. The lights and strobes were lighting up everything.”

What is known is that there were no injuries; but, the post office now has a sign on its still intact the door referring all customers to the Red Bank Post Office on Broad Street “until further notice.”

This is a first in Fair Haven as far as anyone can remember, yet the occurrence of drivers driving, accidentally, into a building has been known to happen with some frequency in the surrounding communities in recent years.

Police have not yet offered a report or commented. R-FH Retro will update this post when both become available.

Many thanks to RFH grad Doug Borden for contributing the aftermath photos, taken this morning, to R-FH Retro.