CARNEYS POINT TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — Four individuals died in a multivehicle crash early Sunday on the New Jersey Turnpike.
The incident occurred around 12:40 a.m. on the southbound side near milepost 1.3. According to New Jersey State Police, Christopher Neff, 41, of Westminster, Colorado, was driving a Dodge pickup truck northbound in the southbound lanes when the collision took place.
Yaakov Kilberg, 19, of Lakewood, New Jersey, was traveling south in a Mazda SUV with three passengers in the left lane. Authorities reported a head-on collision between the Dodge and the Mazda, which was subsequently struck by a Freightliner tractor-trailer in the right lane.
Kilberg and his three passengers, identified as 18-year-old Aharon Lebovits and 18-year-old Shlomo Cohen, both from Lakewood, along with 18-year-old Chaim Grossman from Fallsburg, New York, were killed in the crash. Neff suffered serious injuries, while the driver of the Freightliner was unharmed.
Emergency responders were on the scene, and authorities confirmed that the crash is under investigation. Details regarding lane closures and tows were not specified.