Crime & Safety
Woman Killed In NJ Turnpike Crash In Woodbridge: Police
A car and a van collided at 5:50 a.m. Monday near milepost 94.6 in Woodbridge, just south of Exit 12, State Police said.
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A woman was killed and her passenger seriously injured in a car accident that occurred just before 6 a.m. on the New Jersey Turnpike in Woodbridge Monday, according to State Police.
A 2007 Mercedes was disabled in the left center lane of the Turnpike at 5:50 a.m. near milepost 94.6 in Woodbridge, just south of Exit 12, said Trooper Charles Marchan of the New Jersey State Police.
A Ford transit van traveling south hit the back of the Mercedes and the Mercedes' passenger, Wendys Guevara, 23, from Elizabeth, suffered fatal injuries.
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The driver Henry Nolasco,23, also from Elizabeth, suffered serious injuries.
The driver of the Ford, Arnoldo Avalos-Rivera, 45, from Queens suffered minor injuries.
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The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Nolasco was flown by medical helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
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