Car Crash, Knife Incident Remain Under Investigation

Update, Jan. 6, 2012:

Lawrence Township police are still working to identify and locate the driver of a car that slammed into a tree early Saturday morning (Dec. 24) along Lawrence Road (Route 206) near Concord Avenue.

Police are also still investigating an unrelated domestic dispute in which a woman was injured with a knife a couple hours later Saturday morning.

Notified of the crash on Route 206 at 4:33 a.m. Saturday, police officers and emergency personnel arrived to find Henry Tripp, a 38-year-old Trenton resident, trapped in the passenger seat of the badly-mangled Pontiac Grand Am.

The driver, however, was nowhere to be found.

Volunteer firefighters had to cut Tripp free from the wreckage. Once extricated, he was rushed into surgery at the trauma center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton.

Police used a dog to search the area around the accident scene but the driver could not be located Saturday morning.

Lt. Charles Edgar, police department spokesman, said on Tuesday that police know who owns the Pontiac but they have not been able to locate that woman. He said it is still unknown if the woman – a 33-year-old resident of Lamberton Street in Trenton – was driving the car Saturday morning or if someone else was behind the steering wheel.

He said Detective Robert Potter is continuing the investigation.

Also still under investigation by Detective Potter is the domestic dispute that took place about 6:15 a.m. Saturday at a residence on Catbird Court.

In that incident, a 41-year-old woman suffered a laceration to her left forearm caused by a knife during an argument she was allegedly having with her boyfriend, who was identified by Edgar as 23-year-old Robert W. Glenn.

Exactly how the woman was injured remains under investigation, Edgar said, but he said Glenn was arrested after police tracked him down to a bus stop on Lawrenceville-Pennington Road and discovered that he was wanted by Trenton police in connection with a $25,000 warrant.