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Motorcycle Crash Victim, 23, ID'd By Police In South Jersey Motorcycle Crash Victim, 23, ID'd By Police In South Jersey
Motorcycle Crash Victim, 23, ID'd By Police In South Jersey Police have identified the Salem County motorcyclist killed when he collided with a school bus earlier this month. Joel Morales, 23, of Carneys Point Township, was riding north on Route 130 at about 2 p.m. on Feb. 1 when he collided with a bus pulling out of Ross Enterprises, near Washington Avenue, according to Carneys Point Police Detective Joseph Racite. Morales was pronounced dead at the scene, Racite said. There were no students aboard the bus at the time, Racite said. The bus driver was not injured, he said. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, he said. Click here to…

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by Jon Craig
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Boy Struck By Car, Airlifted After Getting Off School Bus In South Jersey Boy Struck By Car, Airlifted After Getting Off School Bus In South Jersey
Boy Struck By Car, Airlifted After Getting Off School Bus In South Jersey A 15-year-old boy from Mays Landing had to be airlifted with serious injuries after being struck by a car, authorities said. The student had just gotten off a school bus when the crash occurred on Monday, Dec. 4 at about 5:40 p.m., according to Hamilton Township police in Atlantic County. The crash occurred at the intersection of Mays Landing Somers Point Road and Old River Road. A preliminary investigation found a 2013 Honda Civic operated by Richard Brownell, 79, of Selbyville, Delaware, was traveling southbound on Mays Landing Somers Point Road when he struck the boy, police said. The …

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by Jon Craig
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12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies 12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies
12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies A 12-year-old boy died days after being found unresponsive on a school bus in Camden County, authorities said. School officials and first responders tried reviving the boy after finding him on a bus in Gloucester Township Jan. 24, a spokesman with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He died on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The matter remains under investigation by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and the Gloucester Township Police Department

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by Cecilia Levine
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Morris County School Bus Driver Crashes During Medical Episode: Police Morris County School Bus Driver Crashes During Medical Episode: Police
Morris County School Bus Driver Crashes During Medical Episode: Police A school bus driver was suffering a medical episode during a Tuesday afternoon crash in Morris County, authorities said. The school bus was being driven erratically before it slowed down and crashed into another vehicle on Brooklake Road in Florham Park around 4:15 p.m., according to the Florham Park Police Department and Office of Emergency Management. Responding officers quickly determined that the driver had suffered a medical episode and transported them to a local hospital under the care of Atlantic Health EMS and paramedics. No injuries were reported to any of the several children on…

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by Valerie Musson
Obituaries
School Bus Driver Among 2 Killed In NJ Crash Mourned As Loving, Affectionate Grandmother School Bus Driver Among 2 Killed In NJ Crash Mourned As Loving, Affectionate Grandmother
School Bus Driver Among 2 Killed In NJ Crash Mourned As Loving, Affectionate Grandmother A school bus driver was among two people who died in a three-vehicle crash Friday, police said. The International 3000 bus was heading east and carrying 19 students from Olivet Elementary School in Elmer when it was struck by a westbound Nissan Murano on County Road 540 around 4 p.m., New Jersey State Police said in a release. The bus and Nissan both veered into the westbound lanes, hitting a Volkswagon Jetta near milepost 28.5 in Pittsgrove, authorities said. All three vehicles went off the road to the right. The school bus driver and Nissan driver both were killed as a result of the cr…

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by Cecilia Levine