SOUTH BRUNSWICK – An early morning crash on Sept. 19, resulting in one fatality, is under investigation in South Brunswick.
South Brunswick police officers responded to the area of Major Road for a single-car motor vehicle crash around 4:35 a.m.
The investigation revealed a 2005 Ford F-350 driven by a 22-year-old Pennsylvania man left the roadway and overturned, according to a statement provided by Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Raymond Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department.
A passenger in the vehicle, Gerald Pellak, III, 22, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, died at the scene.
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Anyone with information on the crash should call Officer William Beard of the South Brunswick Police Department at 732-329-4000, ext. 7439, or Detective Jonathan Berman of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-4328.