Nearly $60K Donationed To Brooke Costanzo's Family

SADDLE BROOK, NJ — Nearly $60,000 has been donated to the family of Brooke Costanzo, the local 16-year-old who died Dec. 4.

Costanzo, 16, was killed the day after the Honda Pilot she was driving veered off a South Brunswick road and struck a tree.

Costanzo's father Timothy died in a motorcycle crash near Interstate 80 when she was just 10, NJ.com reported.

Authorities are trying to determine why Costanzo, who did not have a driver's license, took her mother's 2012 Honda Pilot and drove it nearly 50 miles away to South Brunswick Dec. 3, police previously said.

South Brunswick police were called at 6:31 p.m. to Fresh Ponds Road near Selma Drive for a vehicle off the roadway that hit a tree, Patch previously reported. It took firefighters 30 minutes to pull Costanzo from the wreckage. She died from her injuries the next morning.

Costanzo was an all-league lacrosse player and a great teammate, her coach said.

Hundreds of Costanzo's schoolmates and friends attended a vigil in her memory at Saddle Brook High School Tuesday night

"She was the most outgoing, lovely person I've ever had the pleasure of knowing," said Anjelica Parisi, who said she knew Costanzo since they were 4 years old. "She just knew how to make everyone smile, no matter what the situation was."

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Photo: One of the photos of Brooke Costanzo on display at a vigil held in her honor at Saddle Brook High School last week.