Crime & Safety

UPDATE: 2 in Critical Condition After Crash in Logan Twp.

Seven people were injured. Investigators suspect the driver, Tyler Burlingame, 21, of Paulsboro, may have had too much to drink.

Seven young people were injured in a single-vehicle crash in Logan Twp. Thursday, when police say the soft-top Jeep Wrangler in which they were traveling overturned on Floodgate Rd.

Acording to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, alcohol consumption by the driver, 21-year-old Tyler Burlingame of Paulsboro, may have played a role in the accident.

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The crash remains under criminal investigation.

Burlingame's Jeep "turned sharply on the road at a location between the Bridgeport Raceway and the Delaware River," according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.

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Neither the driver's destination nor his point of origin was known to investigators. The crash was reported at 1:11 a.m.

At least two of the passengers were "seriously injured," authorites reported, and "were all transported by ambulance to either Cooper Medical Center in Camden, NJ or the Crozer Medical Center in Upland, PA."

Burlingame was a district champion wrestler for Paulsboro in 2010. His passengers were:

  • Samantha Barasso, 20, of Gibbstown
  • Gerald Cosgrove, Jr., 23, of Paulsboro
  • Anthony Dawson, 20, of Paulsboro
  • Taylor Mogar, 20, of Mantua
  • Amberly Morris, 21, of Gibbstown
  • Robert Sargent, III, 24, of Paulsboro

Stay with Patch for more information as we have it.

UPDATE: May 17 at 3:30 p.m. — A spokesperson at Cooper Hospital confirmed that Mogar, the only passenger transported there, is in stable condition. Calls to Crozer Medical Center could not immediately confirm the conditions of the other six.

UPDATE: May 17 at 3:50 p.m. — A spokesperson in the emergency room at Crozer confirmed to Patch that two patients are in critical condition, and another is stable. Under the conditions of HIPAA, no patient personal information could be assigned to their conditions. The spokesperson did also believe that the other three patients sent to Crozer may have been released to the care of other hospitals.

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