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Mercer County Engineer, 25, Killed In Wrong-Way Massachusetts Crash Mercer County Engineer, 25, Killed In Wrong-Way Massachusetts Crash
Mercer County Engineer, 25, Killed In Wrong-Way Massachusetts Crash A 25-year-old engineer from Mercer County was killed this week by a wrong-way driver in Massachusetts, where she lived and worked, police said.  Geetika Guruprasad, of West Windsor, died just after 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, in Littleton, a suburb of Boston.  Guruprasad was driving her Mazda CX-5 on Route 2 when an SUV traveling on the wrong side of the road collided with her, Massachusetts State Police said. Paramedics rushed her to Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, where doctors pronounced her dead.  The 22-year-old driver of the Chevrolet SUV was also se…

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by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
Passenger Seriously Hurt When SUV Goes Wrong Way On Garden State Parkway: State Police Passenger Seriously Hurt When SUV Goes Wrong Way On Garden State Parkway: State Police
Passenger Seriously Hurt When SUV Goes Wrong Way On Garden State Parkway: State Police A wrong-way crash on the Garden State Parkway left a passenger seriously hurt, authorities said. The crash occurred at 11:12 p.m. on Sunday, June 12 near milepost 48.4 in Port Republic in Atlantic County, New Jersey State Police said.  A 43-year-old Toms River man driving a Honda Pilot the wrong way — north in the southbound lanes — struck a Chevy Equinox before being hit by a Kia K5, police said. Dwight Phillips, 22, of New York City — a passenger in the Kia — was hospitalized with serious injuries while the drivers of the two SUVs suffered moderate injuries, State Police said. The …

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Police: Camden County Man 5 Minutes From Home Killed By Wrong-Way Teen Driver Police: Camden County Man 5 Minutes From Home Killed By Wrong-Way Teen Driver
Police: Camden County Man 5 Minutes From Home Killed By Wrong-Way Teen Driver A 31-year-old man was just five minutes from home when he was struck and killed by a wrong-way driver in Camden County over the weekend, police said. Javargo C. Mason, Sicklerville in Winslow Township, was driving south on Sicklerville Road when he was struck by the teen in a 2001 Nissan Altima, police said. The teen crossed over the double yellow line and struck Mason's 2015 red Honda CRV, authorities said. The crash occurred near the intersection with Camino Court around 11:15 p.m. Mason was pronounced dead at the scene and the teen was hospitalized with serious injuries. No charge…

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by Cecilia Levine