Crime & Safety
Car Hits, Kills Newark Woman, 35, Near Broadway and Third Avenue: Police
The driver also hit two utility poles, a traffic control box, a tree, a fence and a parked car during the Newark crash, authorities said.
NEWARK, NJ — A Newark driver struck and killed a city resident near Broadway and Third Avenue on Thursday evening, authorities say.
The pedestrian-car crash took place around 6:45 p.m. when an 87-year-old woman from Newark in a 2000 Hyundai Sonata struck Tamara Campbell, 35, of Newark, according to a joint statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.
The driver also hit two utility poles, a traffic control box, a tree, a fence and a parked car during the crash, authorities said.
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Emergency responders transported Campbell to University Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m. on Thursday.
At this time, no charges have been filed against the driver, who remained at the scene following the incident, police said.
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The Newark Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the incident, authorities stated.
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