Tag: motor vehicle accident
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Ocean County man faces charges related to fatal crash in Freehold Township
An Ocean County man has been arrested in connection with the death of a mother and her child in a fatal July crash in Freehold Township, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced. On Dec. 16, Thomas F. Polson, 53, of Little Egg Harbor, was arrested on two counts of second degree vehicular homicide, one…
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Driver charged in wake of Mulligan’s crash
HOWELL – A 53-year-old woman from Lakewood has been charged with careless driving after crashing her car into an entrance vestibule at Mulligan’s Bar and Restaurant, Squankum Road, on the afternoon of Aug. 5. According to a police report obtained from the Howell Police Department, the woman told police she attempted to slow down for…
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Mulligan’s survives car hitting entrance
HOWELL – Mulligan’s Bar and Restaurant remained open following an accident in which a car crashed into one of the building’s entrance vestibules. Firefighters from Howell’s Squankum Fire Company No. 1 responded to the business on Squankum Road just before 3 p.m. Aug. 5. Assistant Chief Michael Kortenhaus arrived on location to find a vehicle…
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Jackson woman dies in Freehold Township crash
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A motor vehicle crash at Siloam and Old Turkey Swamp roads in Freehold Township on the morning of July 6 claimed the life of a Jackson woman, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Debra Vattelana, 55, was pronounced dead at 9:42 a.m. as a result of a head-on collision, he said.…
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Chiropractic care after an auto accident: A step in the right direction
Have you been injured in an auto accident? Chances are, you’re not alone. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) the most updated statistics show there were 273,473 total car crashes on New Jersey municipal, county, state, interstate and toll road ways in 2016 – 46,017 of which took place in Monmouth and…
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Recycling company employee struck, killed in South River
SOUTH RIVER – A 49-year-old North Brunswick man was killed on May 3 when he was struck by a vehicle on Pulawski Avenue in South River, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and South River Police Chief Mark Tinitigan said in a statement. Phyliss Kocheran, 52, of South River, was allegedly the operator of a…
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Two drivers injured in Edison accident
EDISON — Two motorists were injured during a two-vehicle collision on April 26. The accident occurred on Route 27 near Terry Avenue at 5:25 a.m., according to police. A 54-year-old Newark woman was driving along Route 27 when her Mercedes-Benz SUV collided with a Chevy Malibu, which was making a left turn onto the…
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Edison to address dispatch of fire department
EDISON — The Township Council’s Public Safety Committee will address concerns by fire officials on dispatch protocol of the fire department to emergency medical calls. Jim Walsh, second vice president of the Edison Fire Fighters Association, addressed the council at the two meetings in October on his concerns of the inconsistency of sending the fire…
