Lakehurst Woman Dies As SUV Hits Crash Debris On Parkway

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Lakehurst woman was killed Tuesday morning when she hit debris from an earlier crash on the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey State Police said.

Elaina S. Clarke, 46, was driving south on the Parkway in a Chevrolet Equinox south about 5:30 a.m. at milepost 85.7 when she hit a wheel that was in the road from a Ford F-250 that had crashed earlier, Trooper II Charles Marchan said.

After hitting the wheel, the Chevrolet ran off the road and hit the back end of the Ford, which was disabled on the median and unoccupied, and Clarke suffered fatal injuries, he said.

State police did not say how much time had passed between the Ford F-250 crash and when Clarke encountered the debris.

The crash remains under investigation, Marchan said, and he said no additional information was available.