NJ Turnpike deadly crash victims embody 3 from Lakewood – NBC New York
Households and pals are mourning 4 younger individuals who died in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike over the weekend, a collision that in the end despatched their automobile into the trail of a tractor-trailer.
The accident occurred at about 1 a.m. Sunday because the group headed southbound, south of Exit 1, in Carneys Level Township. A Dodge pickup truck, pushed by a 41-year-old Colorado man, was headed northbound within the southbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike.
Sooner or later, officers stated, the Dodge collided with a Mazda SUV, being pushed by Yaakov Kilberg, 19, of Lakewood, New Jersey, that was headed southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike. The collision pushed Kilberg’s automobile into the trail of a Freightliner tractor-trailer. He had three passengers with him.
All 4 of them died — Kilberg and Aharon Lebovits and Shlomo Cohen, each 18-year-olds from Lakewood, and Chaim Grossman, an 18-year-old from Fallsburg, New York.
The Dodge driver, police stated, was significantly harm within the crash. There was no speedy replace on his situation Monday. The tractor-trailer driver wasn’t harm.
All lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike by means of that space have been closed for a number of hours to facilitate the response.
No costs have been filed right now. An investigation is ongoing.
