4 Teens Killed In Wrong-Way Crash On Turnpike: Police

CARNEYS POINT TOWNSHIP, NJ — Four teens were killed overnight in a wrong-way crash involving two passenger vehicles and a semitrailer on the New Jersey Turnpike in Salem County, according to police.

Troopers responded around 12:45 a.m. Sunday to the scene on the southbound turnpike at milepost 1.3 in Carneys Point Township, state police said.

The victims were identified as 19-year-old Yaakov Kilberg of Lakewood, who was driving a Mazda SUV in the left inner lane, and his passengers, Aharon Lebovits and Shlomo Cohen, both aged 18 and from Lakewood, and Chaim Grossman, an 18-year-old from Fallsburg, New York, according to police.

The southbound Mazda was in a head-on collision with a Dodge pickup that was traveling north in the turnpike’s southbound lanes and that was driven by a 41-year-old man from Colorado, police said, adding that the driver of the Dodge suffered serious injuries.

After the crash with the Dodge, the Mazda was hit by a Freightliner that had been behind the SUV in the right lane, according to police, who said the driver of the semitrailer, a 29-year-old man from Nova Scotia, Canada, was not hurt.

The crash remained under investigation Sunday, police said.