Woman dies
in Sayreville
car crash
6-year-old girl survives;
24-year-old charged
with DWI
SAYREVILLE — A 6-year-old Parlin child is motherless after an alleged drunken driver struck a disabled car on Victory Bridge Friday, police said.
According to police, Arlene Magee, 32, was inside her 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, along with three passengers, on the right lane of the bridge, on Route 9, with hazard lights on when the car was struck in the rear by a 1989 Pontiac Sunbird at 7:33 p.m. Friday.
The car, according to police, stopped when it was pushed into a guardrail.
Magee was transported to Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division, where she was pronounced dead at 8:12 p.m.
According to Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Nicholas Sewitch, Magee was inside of the car at the time of the incident.
Magee’s 6-year-old daughter Christina was also in the car at the time of the incident.
She also was taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center, where she was treated and released.
Also inside Magee’s car at the time of the incident was 11-year-old Erika Miner. According to police reports, she sustained serious head and internal injuries in the accident. She was initially taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division, but later transferred to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She remains in intensive care at the hospital, according to officials.
North Carolina resident Christopher Willis, 15, was also treated and released from Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division, for minor injuries sustained in the accident.
According to police, the driver of the second car, Bradley Wilson, 24, of Manalapan, has been charged with aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault, driving while intoxicated and several other driving related charges. Police say he struck the vehicle from behind.
According to Sewitch, Wilson was highly intoxicated at the time of the incident.
Wilson, who sustained leg injuries in the accident, was taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division, where he was treated and released.
His bail, which was set on Saturday by Judge Roger Baley, is $250,000 with no 10 percent provision.