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Flight Attendant Out Of Newark Airport Dies After Spinout Crash On Route 78 Flight Attendant Out Of Newark Airport Dies After Spinout Crash On Route 78
Flight Attendant Out Of Newark Airport Dies After Spinout Crash On Route 78 Jennifer Friedel-Hoffman, a 60-year-old Pennsylvania resident, was killed in a crash on Route 78 in New Jersey on Wednesday, May 29. A tractor-trailer was parked and unoccupied on the right shoulder on Route 78 West in Lebanon when a Subaru driven by Friedel-Hoffman entered the area and struck the left rear of the truck just after 9 a.m., New Jersey State Police said.  The crash caused the Subaru to spin out and hit a Volkswagen passenger car traveling in the right lane, police said. Friedel-Hoffman was taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. A graduate of Northamp…

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by Sam Barron
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Jersey City Bicyclist, 34, Dies In Route 78 Crash Jersey City Bicyclist, 34, Dies In Route 78 Crash
Jersey City Bicyclist, 34, Dies In Route 78 Crash A 34-year-old Jersey City cyclist was killed after he was struck by a vehicle on Route 78 West in Union County on the morning of Monday, Sept. 11, authorities said. Irving Batista was riding his Zugo e-bike when it was struck by a Ford pickup truck at 6:09 a.m. in Union Township, Detective Jeffrey LeBron said.  After being struck by the Ford, the e-bike overturned and was struck by a Madza, Lebron said. Batista sustained fatal injuries, Lebron said. Authorities are still investigating the crash, Lebron said.

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by Sam Barron
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5 Nabbed In Brutal Hunterdon County Motorcycle Gang Attack And Robbery, More Still On Loose: PD 5 Nabbed In Brutal Hunterdon County Motorcycle Gang Attack And Robbery, More Still On Loose: PD
5 Nabbed In Brutal Hunterdon County Motorcycle Gang Attack And Robbery, More Still On Loose: PD Police have identified and arrested five of more than a dozen motorcyclists whom they say brutally yanked a man out of his vehicle, attacked him, robbed him, and sped off after a September crash in Hunterdon County. The initial crash occurred in Clinton Township just after 10:10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3, DailyVoice.com reported. Officers responding to an assault on Cokesbury Road in Clinton Township found that a group of about 13 motorcyclists had dragged a 62-year-old man from his vehicle, assaulted him, and stolen his cellphone after the crash, Chief Thomas A. DeRosa said in a release a…

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by Valerie Musson
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Carjackers Who Led Wild Route 78 Pursuit Had Heroin, Firearms, Three Magazines: Police Carjackers Who Led Wild Route 78 Pursuit Had Heroin, Firearms, Three Magazines: Police
Carjackers Who Led Wild Route 78 Pursuit Had Heroin, Firearms, Three Magazines: Police More than a dozen decks of heroin, firearms and several magazines were seized following an armed carjacking and wild Route 78 pursuit, leading to the arrest of four Newark males including two teens Thursday, July 7, authorities said. Tysean Ware, 19, Raheem Pamplin, 21, a 16-year-old male, and a 17-year-old male, were being held on various charges as of Friday, Newark Interim Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. It began around 1 p.m., when police responded to the 200 block of Frelinghuysen Avenue for an armed carjacking, Malave said. A victim sitting inside his vehicle, a 2019 Me…

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by Cecilia Levine