Four people were killed and another injured in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday, New Jersey State Police said.
The accident occurred around 12:42 a.m. on the south side near mile marker 1.3 in Carneys Point.
Christopher Neff, 41, of Westminster, Colorado, was driving a Dodge pickup truck northbound in the southbound lanes when he collided with a Mazda pickup truck traveling in the inside left 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, died, police said.
Neff suffered “serious injuries,” police said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Harpret Singh Sandhu, 29, of Nova Scotia, was not injured.
The four people who died were reportedly Yeshiva students who were on school vacation, according to The Yeshiva World.
The crash remains under investigation, New Jersey State Police said.
Traffic was restricted on the shoulder of the road until after 8am. The incident was resolved by mid-morning, according to a New Jersey Department of Transportation website.
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