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4 Teens Killed — 3 From Lakewood — In Wrong-Way Crash On Turnpike: Police
A wrong-way driver caused a head-on collision that killed four teens, three from Lakewood, as their SUV was also struck by a tractor-trailer, police said.
- Sunday early morning, four teenagers were killed in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike near milepost 1.3 in Carneys Point Township, Salem County.
- A Dodge pickup drove north in southbound lanes about 25 miles southwest of Philadelphia around 12:40 a.m., colliding head-on with a southbound vehicle, police said.
- Yaakov Kilberg, driver, of Lakewood, N.J., died with passengers Aharon Lebovits and Shlomo Cohen, both 18 and from Lakewood, N.J., and Chaim Grossman, 18, from Fallsburg, N.Y.
- The impact sent the vehicle into a Freightliner tractor-trailer, whose driver from Nova Scotia, Canada was uninjured, while the pickup driver was hospitalized with serious injuries and all lanes closed for several hours.
- State Police asked for the public's help as the crash remains under investigation and urged witnesses to call Troop D Moorestown Station detective bureau at 609-860-9000; no charges were filed as of Monday morning.
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