OLD BRIDGE, NJ — A young couple from Pennsylvania, a man and a woman engaged to be married, were killed in a car crash late Friday night on Rt. 9 in Old Bridge.
The crash occurred just after midnight Friday on Rt. 9 south, as the car they were in tried to pull onto Rt. 9 from the Grand Marquis banquet hall.
The Grand Marquis is a wedding venue.
The couple was inside a Ford SUV driven by a 35-year-old man from Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, with three passengers inside.
It pulled out of the Grand Marquis and attempted to make a left onto Rt. 9 north. That's when it was hit on the driver's side by a Lexus SUV driven by a 34-year-old Old Bridge man.
The Old Bridge man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for serious injuries, as was the driver and front-seat passenger of the Ford SUV.
But the two back-seat passengers, Anthony Pizzo, 32, and Lindsey Clarke, 33, both of Wyoming, PA, were pronounced dead at the scene. The couple had gotten engaged to be married last winter, according to this Instagram post from their personal account.
The investigation is active and continuing. Anyone with info. is asked to call Officer Frank Landi of the Old Bridge Police Department at 732-721-5600 or Detective James Barnes of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office at 732-745-3437.
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