EAST BRUNSWICK — Police responded to an automobile accident that left four injured and damaged a number of vehicles in the parking lot of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Cranbury Road on June 28.
Frank Russo, 89, of East Brunswick, reportedly backed his 2007 Lincoln out of a parking space and into an unoccupied parked car. Russo’s Lincoln pushed the car into two other vehicles, damaging both.
He then reportedly drove forward and crashed into the VFW building. His vehicle partially deflected off the building before striking another unoccupied vehicle, according to police.
Russo and front-seat passenger Doris Sweetser sustained nonlife-threatening injuries. Ralph Kratz, a passenger in the back seat, sustained serious leg injuries, police said.
James Scudder, a patron inside the VFW at the time of the collision, was also injured.
Scudder and all three occupants of the vehicle were treated by members of the East Brunswick Rescue Squad, Spotswood EMS and paramedics from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where they were taken following the crash.
Circumstances surrounding the collision are being investigated. Anyone with information should contact Patrolman Thomas Kienle of the East Brunswick Police Special Operations Section at 732-390-6969.