75-Year-Old Dies In Carteret NJ Turnpike Crash, Others Injured: Police

CARTERET, NJ - A fatal three-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carteret resulted in the death of a 75-year-old and injured three others, authorities said.

The incident, which was reported Thursday shortly after midnight in the inner roadway near milepost 95.3 in Carteret, saw a Lincoln Navigator, a Toyota Prius and a Nissan Murano traveling south when a collision between the Navigator and the Prius occurred, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police told Patch.

The Prius then traveled across the lanes and was struck by the Murano, state police said.

As a result of the crash, a passenger in the Murano, identified as Markio Chang, 75, from Montrose, Calif., sustained fatal injuries. The driver of the Murano, a 49 year-old man of Philadelphia, P.a., sustained minor injuries, and another passenger, a 37-year-old man from Montrose, Calif., sustained non-life-threatening injuries, state police said.

The driver of the Toyota, a 19-year-old man from Harrison, N.J., sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to an area hospital. The driver of the Navigator, a 70-year-old man from Morganville, N.J., was not injured.

The accident remains under investigation.