Crime & Safety
More Details Emerge After Teen Killed In N.J. Car Wreck, Same Tragedy As Sister
More details after a teen was killed when her car hit a tree on a N.J. roadway, police said. Her sister suffered from the same tragedy.
More details have emerged a day after a teen died when her car struck a tree on a New Jersey roadway, police said, five years after the same tragedy happened to her sister.
Services are being arranged for Keely E. Blaney as an outpouring of sorrow has come for the 18-year-old who was called a "gentle soul."
RIP Keely Blaney ❤ I wish I was able to have met you. Fly high beautiful. You made your mark.
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The 18-year-old was driving at 11:22 a.m. on Tuesday morning when her car left Route 625, swerved and struck a tree in the township, according to nj.com.
The accident was on roadway also known as Pequest Road, near Pequest Furnace Road, according to the report. Blaney, who was driving a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Her older sister, Alexandria Konkoly, was 22 when she was killed on Oct. 21, 2011, at the merge of Routes 620 and 519 in White Township, according to LehighValleyLive.com.
The Oxford Volunteer Fire Department, Washington Emergency Squad, Oxford Emergency Squad, New Jersey State Police and paramedics from Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township all assisted in the Tuesday crash.
Authorities will continue to investigate the accident, according to The Daily Record, and no citations have been issued.
We'll have more information as it comes in.
Blaney, a 2016 Warren County Technical School, was described as a "gentle soul" who enrolled at East Stroudsburg University, Warren Tech Principal Geta Vogel said told LehighValleyLive.com.
Vogel told the publication she was in her office with a student, just before 3 p.m., when her secretary broke in, crying, to say Blaney had died.
"You're shocked at the loss of a young child anyhow, but then you add to that the kind an individual and inspiration she was to others and how she handled any kind of stress, well, then it just makes it all the more just so, sad. Sad," Vogel told the publication.
Photo courtesy of Keely Blaney's family/Twitter
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