MVA turns fatal on NJ Turnpike
Published: Sunday, August 25, 2002
The Trenton Times, http://www.nj.com
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - An attorney from Villanova, Pa., died early yesterday morning after being thrown from a sport utility vehicle during a two-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike, state police said.
Dana Hadley, 35, was conscious at the scene of the accident but died later at the hospital from massive internal injuries, said Steve Jones, a spokesman for the state police.
Hadley was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband, 38-year-old Franklin Miller, Jones said.
Shortly after 6 a.m., the couple was traveling northbound on the Turnpike when their car made contact with another vehicle, driven by 23-year-old Wesam Sleiman of Brooklyn, N.Y. Both cars veered off the right-hand side of the road, traveled down an embankment and overturned, Jones said.
After being thrown from her vehicle, Hadley struck a tree, he said.
Miller and the couple's 13-month-old child, who was secured in a child carrier in the back seat of the car, were taken to Capital Health System at Fuld hospital in Trenton and later released, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Sleiman, the driver of the other vehicle, was not injured, Jones said, but a passenger in his vehicle, Patrick Pasquince, 28, of Brooklyn, suffered minor injuries.
State police said he was taken to Fuld, although administrators there said there was no record of him being treated.
State police were unsure last night how contact between the two vehicles occurred. The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office was assisting in the investigation.
The Washington Township Fire Department and the Allentown First Aid Squad responded to the scene of the crash.
No charges have been filed, Jones said.