Traffic & Transit

Teens From Bucks, Montco Killed In NJ Turnpike Crash

The two teens were thrown from the vehicle in the Sunday morning crash.

CRANBURY, NJ — Two Pennsylvania teens were killed and four others hospitalized after a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Cranbury on Sunday morning, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and New Jersey State Police said.

Authorities received a 911 call at about 5:06 a.m. Sunday, reporting a collision in the southbound outer lanes of the Turnpike, authorities said Monday.

Officers arrived at mile marker 69.9 in Cranbury and found a vehicle with six people inside. Two of them, a 19-year-old male from Warminster, Pennsylvania, and a 16-year-old male from Hatboro, Pennsylvania, were thrown from the vehicle. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

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The other four teens were taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. Authorities did not release their conditions, and they did not say what caused the crash or whether other vehicles were involved.

The investigation is active and continuing, officials said.

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Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Shadi Zaiton of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-4263, or the State Police Cranbury Station Detective Bureau at 609-860-9000, ext. 4424.

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