Princeton Man Dies Following Accident on Library Place

A Princeton man who was involved in an accident on Library Place on Wednesday has died.

Donald E. Capps, 76, was pronounced dead at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton at 8:54 p.m. Wednesday night, Princeton Police said on Thursday.

Karen Capps, 73, of Princeton, was also hospitalized in the accident. She was a passenger in Donald Capps’ car. There was no update on her condition on Thursday.

Capps was driving a silver Volkswagen Beetle on Library Place around 8:53 a.m. Wednesday morning. He allegedly passed several cars that were in front of him after crossing the intersection at Stockton Street.

When he veered east after crossing the intersection, he struck struck the right rear bumper of a green Volvo that was being driven by 63-year-old Princeton resident Sharon M. Worthington.

The Volkswagen then crashed into a tree near the east sidewalk area of 65 Stockton Street and came to a stop.

Worthington was uninjured and able to drive from the scene.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation.

Capps was a professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1981-2009, according to the Princeton Packet. He was the William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology.