New Jersey Family Continues To Advocate For Safer Driving Years After Fatal Crash

CBS Philadelphia

April 16, 2025

The members of one South Jersey family are sharing their story in hopes of bringing attention about the life-or-death consequences of distracted driving this National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

Toni Donato-Bolis and her unborn baby boy, R.J., were killed in 2011 in a head-on crash about a mile from their Washington Township, New Jersey, home. Donato-Bolis' sister, Angela Melroy, arrived at the scene minutes after it happened.

"I had gone up to the driver at the time when everyone else was trying to figure out a way to get my sister out of the car, and I said, 'What happened?' And he was like, 'I was looking down and we just crashed,'" Melroy said.

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