Ocean County Teens Among Victims of Turnpike Tragedy

Ocean County Teens Among Victims of Turnpike Tragedy

According to authorities, a wrong-way collision involving two passenger cars and a semitrailer on the New Jersey Turnpike in Salem County claimed the lives of four teenagers, including three from Lakewood.

According to state police, troopers arrived at the scene on the northbound turnpike near milepost 1.3 in Carneys Point Township at approximately 12:45 a.m. on Sunday.

According to authorities, the casualties were 19-year-old Yaakov Kilberg of Lakewood, who was operating a Mazda SUV in the left inner lane, along with his passengers, 18-year-old Lakewood residents Aharon Lebovits and Shlomo Cohen, and 18-year-old Chaim Grossman of Fallsburg, New York.

According to authorities, the southbound Mazda collided head-on with a Dodge pickup driven by a 41-year-old Colorado man who was heading north in the turnpike's southbound lanes. The driver of the Dodge was seriously hurt.

Police said the driver of the semitrailer, a 29-year-old man from Nova Scotia, Canada, was unharmed. Following the collision with the Dodge, a Freightliner that had been in the right lane behind the SUV struck the Mazda.