A Jackson Township man has died and two other people have been hospitalized with injuries sustained in a Friday night crash in the Pine Lake Park section of Manchester Township around 7.58pm.
Police say the driver of a silver 2005 Honda Civic began to accelerate west after stopping at the stop sign on Northampton Boulevard and pulled directly into the path where a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Gray was heading north on Commonwealth Boulevard.
The two vehicles collided and were then forced off the road.
Manchester Police say George Hruszczak, 70, of Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining internal injuries while his passenger, Suzana Collazo, 41, of Jackson, was to be rescued arson attack in Manchester and was later airlifted. Jersey Shore University Medical Center by a Robert Wood Johnson Life Flight medevac helicopter.
She is currently listed in critical condition for internal and head injuries.
Police said Hruszczak and Collazo were both wearing their seat belts and the airbags were not deployed.
Lois Genna, 28, from Manchester, who was driving the Jeep, was not wearing her seatbelt and was taken to Toms River Community Medical Center for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, the police said. police.
In other Jersey Shore News this week, a Toms River woman who was high on marijuana when she caused a fatal chain reaction crash in Manchester in Marchturned himself in to Manchester police on Tuesday, accused of causing the accident which claimed the lives of two men from Toms River.
Car accident on June 24 in Manchester
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