Four people were killed and another was injured in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday, New Jersey State Police said.
The accident occurred at about 12:42 a.m. on the southbound side, near milemarker 1.3 in Carneys Point.
Christopher Neff, 41, of Westminster, Colorado was driving a Dodge pick-up truck northbound in the southbound lanes when it collided with a Mazda SUV traveling in the left inner lane.
After those two vehicles collided, the Mazda was struck by a Freightliner tractor trailer that was in the right lane, behind the Mazda.
The driver of the Mazda, Yaakov Kilberg, 19, of Lakewood, and his three passengers — Aharon Lebovits, 18, of Lakewood; Shlomo Cohen, 18, of Lakewood; and Chaim Grossman, 18, of Fallsburg, New York — were killed, police said.
Neff sustained “serious injuries,” police said.
The driver of the tractor trailer, Harpret Singh Sandhu, 29, of Nova Scotia, was not injured.
The four people who were killed were reportedly Yeshiva students who were on a school break, according to The Yeshiva World.
The crash remains under investigation, New Jersey State Police said.
Traffic was restricted to the highway’s shoulder until after 8 a.m. The incident was cleared in the mid-morning, according to a New Jersey Department of Transportation website.
Allison Pries
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