Rest in Peace Travis.
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ - December 4, 2005 -
Police are checking to see if the wintry weather played a role in a pair of deadly crashes along the Atlantic City Expressway.
New Jersey State Police are trying to determine what caused the deadly accidents that happened just a few miles apart.
The Action Cam was at one of the scenes, mile marker 7.3 in Egg Harbor Township. State police four vehicles slammed into each other in the westbound lanes at about 4:15am.
One person was killed. There's no word on the victim's identity, and no reports of other injuries.
The deadly collision closed that section of the highway while police investigated.
The second crash was at mile marker 10. An SUV going westbound on the snow-covered road went out of control and slammed into the median. It then rolled over and hit a tree.
State police say that collision killed the driver.
This part of the road was also closed while police investigated.
ABC Local news - WPVI.com
His was the latter accident. He and one other passenger were killed. They werent wearing seatbelts. The other two were in the car, and survived. As far as it looks, no alcohol was involved, but, they havent posted anything new yet.
EDIT: Here is kyw.com CBS news coverage.
(AP) NEW JERSEY New Jersey roadways made treacherous by a mix of snow and freezing rain early Sunday claimed the lives of three people and had police up and down the state scrambling to keep up with hundreds of collisions being reported.
Numerous accidents, mostly spinouts with minor injuries, were reported along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, as well as secondary and local roads around the state. State police spokesman Steve Jones said troopers responded to 586 accidents Sunday, including 246 on the Turnpike and Parkway, and 25 on the Atlantic City Expressway.
Slick, snowy roads made driving hazardous well into Sunday, as the first measurable snowfall of the season blanked the state.
“People really overestimate their ability to drive in these conditions,” Turnpike spokesman Joe Orlando said, urging drivers to reduce speed when driving on slick roads.
Three people died in two separate single-car accidents overnight.
Two people in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, died after the vehicle in which they were riding lost control and hit a tree along the Atlantic City Expressway at about 4 a.m., Jones said. The dead were identified as driver Travis L. Parker, 27, of Haddon Heights, and rear passenger Ann M. Worden, 32, of Blackwood. Two other people in that vehicle were hurt, one critically.
The first fatality happened an hour earlier in Bordentown. Cheock A. Doumdia, 43, of Charlotte, N.C., was driving south on the Turnpike when he lost control and his vehicle became disabled on the left shoulder. He died after getting out of his car and being hit by another vehicle, Jones said.
A charter bus carrying 25 passengers skidded off the Turnpike in South Brunswick about 9 a.m. Sunday. The driver was thrown through the window, but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, Jones said. Five passengers suffered minor injuries.
The bus, which hit a guardrail and was leaning on its side, was towed from the roadway around noon, after a replacement bus arrived to pick up passengers who weren’t hospitalized by the mishap, Turnpike spokesman Joe Orlando said.
Orlando said the Turnpike remains slick, even though maintenance crews worked throughout the night salting it. Plows are ineffective unless there is at least 2 inches of snow has fallen, he said.
Snowfall totals varied widely from trace amounts in Atlantic City to a high of 4 inches reported in Ewing Township, Mercer County. The average snowfall statewide was 2 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.
The mid section of the state saw about 3 inches of snow; totals in northwest New Jersey varied from 1 to 3 inches; and the southern counties saw 0 to 2 inches.
Forecasters advise Garden State residents to keep their snow shovels handy. A front scheduled to arrive Monday afternoon is expected to bring more white stuff with it.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the southeastern portion of the state from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, meaning snow totals of 5 to 8 inches are possible during that time. The northern portion of the state could get an estimated 2 to 4 inches by Tuesday, but accompanying sleet could lessen overall accumulations.
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