MVA with Rescue on New Jersey Turnpike
Washington Township (Mercer County)- Fire Fighters responded on May 20 at 3:46 AM to a report of a motor vehicle accident with confirmed entrapment on the New Jersey Turnpike at mile marker 64.6. While enroute, Hightstown Fire Company (Station 41) had already been dispatched for the same accident by Hightstown Dispatch. On arrival, Chief 41 reported one vehicle off the roadway on the North Bound side. Immediately on arrival Rescue 41 and Engine 40 went into service with rescue tools to extricate the victims. The victims were extricated and transported to the local area hospital. Fire Fighters remained on scene until 6:30 due to investigation of the accident by New Jersey State Police.
05/21/2007
Man killed in Turnpike crash
By: - JOE D'AQUILA
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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - An early-morning, two-vehicle crash on the New Jersey
Turnpike yesterday left one man dead, and hospitalized two others.
The New Jersey State Police said 27-year-old Benjamin Fernandez was killed when
the car he was a back-seat passenger in was struck from behind while the vehicle
was disabled in the super-highway's right lane.
The impact pushed the stopped car off the roadway and into a ditch.
The crash occurred at 3:38 a.m., the State Police said, around mile marker 64.6
on the Turnpike's northbound lanes.
Police had few other details about the crash or its victims last night, but
initial reports indicated that the vehicle which struck the disabled car was a
tractor-trailer.
While the type of vehicles involved wasn't officially detailed, police said the
driver in the moving vehicle, who was not injured in the wreck, was identified
as Alvertino Filho, 39.
Also in the car with Fernandez, though in the front seat, were Frank Sepulvedas,
42, and Francisco Bentancourt. Both men were transported to Capital health
System at Fuld hospital in Trenton.
Fernandez, police said, was pronounced dead at the scene.