Man Killed In Dirt Bike Collision With SUV in Aberdeen

ABERDEEN, NJ — A Cliffwood Beach man was killed when a dirt bike collided with an SUV Friday night in Aberdeen Township.

The death of 40-year-old Clifford Walton of Cliffwood Beach was announced by Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago on Saturday.

Just before 6 p.m. on Friday, October 14, Aberdeen Police responded to the area of Arlington Avenue and Gordon Street for a report of a serious collision. At that location they found the two men involved in what appears to be accidental collision: A 34-year-old male resident of Aberdeen who had been driving a Jeep Cherokee and Walton, who had been operating a Kawasaki dirt bike.

There were no passengers in or on either vehicle.

Walton sustained serious injuries as a result of the collision and was rushed to Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 6:45 p.m. Friday. The driver of the SUV, who remained on the scene, was not seriously injured.

This matter remains under joint investigation by members of the Aberdeen Township Police Department, the MCPO Fatal Accident Unit, and the multi-jurisdictional Monmouth County Serious Collision Analysis Response Team (SCART). Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact MCPO Detective Brian Boryszewski at 800-533-7443 or Aberdeen Police Department Patrolman John Palumbo at 732-566-2054.