4 youngsters have been killed in after being struck by a Colorado driver in a wrong-way car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday, authorities stated.
All 4 teenagers have been in the identical automobile, which was hit by a Dodge pickup truck traveling the wrong direction close to the south finish of the freeway in Carneys Level Township, NJ.com reported.
Yaakov Kilberg, 19, was driving the Mazda carrying all four victims, in line with the Asbury Park Press. Aharon Lebovits, Shlomo Cohen and Chaim Grossman, all 18, have been passengers within the automobile, the outlet reported.
Christopher Neff, a 41-year-old resident of Westminster, Colorado, was identified by police as the pickup driver, Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU reported. He suffered critical accidents within the wreck and was hospitalized, authorities stated.
Police stated round 12:40 a.m., Neff was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes about 25 miles southwest of Philadelphia, in line with native CBS affiliate KYW. The teenagers have been headed southbound when Neff collided with them head-on, then a tractor-trailer struck their automobile from behind, police stated.
“A simultaneous winching operation and extrication on the second automobile decided, sadly, that four occupants had succumbed to their injuries,” the Carneys Level Hearth Division wrote on Fb.
Kilberg, Lebovits and Cohen have been residents of Lakewood, N.J., whereas Grossman lived in Fallsburg, N.Y. They have been reportedly Yeshiva students having fun with a weekend break.
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