Members of a New Jersey high school baseball team are mourning the loss of their teammate after a fatal car accident in Lakehurst last week. According to police reports, the 17-year-old Jackson boy was killed when the vehicle in which he was a passenger collided with...
Car Accidents
Multiple tractor-trailer crash slows New Jersey Turnpike traffic
Earlier this week, a chain-reaction accident involving one car and seven tractor-trailers plugged up the New Jersey Turnpike in both directions for several hours. The massive truck accident began when a lone tractor-trailer broke down and stopped in the...
Sara’s Law will create next-of-kin registry in New Jersey
On September 24, 2007, Betty and Vic Dubinen received a call from a friend of their daughter, Sara, asking how Sara was faring after her car accident. Not knowing what the friend was talking about, the Dubinens called the police department and local hospitals. They...
New Jersey DOT to fix dangerous interchange
The traffic congestion, merging speeds, and high car accident rates at southern New Jersey's Interstate 295 interchange at I-76 and Route 42 have been a point of contention between drivers and the New Jersey Department of Transportation for decades. Now, after years...
Fatal bus crashes may lead to increased safety standards, part two
Earlier this week, we wrote about the increased efforts of federal lawmakers and safety advocacy groups to require additional safety features in buses. The safety movement comes approximately one month after two deadly bus accidents in New Jersey and New York that...
New Jersey woman killed at train crossing
A 19-year-old New Jersey woman was hit by a train and killed while attempting to drive across a set of railroad tracks. According to witness reports, the woman had steered her SUV around the track's lowered crossing gates when a New Jersey Coast Line train in transit...
New Jersey three-car crash causes one death, two injuries
Last weekend, a three-vehicle accident occurred on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, taking the life of one man and injuring two others. Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the crash.The car accident, which took place at approximately 11 p.m., began...
Anti-texting devices aim to increase driver safety
Technology companies have begun designing devices intended to prevent individuals from texting while driving.According to federal officials, more than 5,000 Americans are killed in car accidents as a result of distracted driving every year. Nearly 20 percent of those...
Woman killed and police officers injured in related accidents
A New Jersey woman was killed and two police officers injured after two related car accidents on the New Jersey Turnpike.According to police reports, the subsequent crashes involved the same vehicle. The first car accident occurred when a 24-year-old Linden woman...
Tour buses come under scrutiny after fatal bus crashes
On Monday night, a tour bus traveling from New York's Chinatown to Philadelphia crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, killing two people and injuring 40 more. The New Jersey accident came just three days after a fatal tour bus crash in the Bronx that took the lives of...
