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Jersey Shore Driver Crossed Center Line While Passing In Fatal Head-On Crash: State Police
A 79-year-old driver was killed and another seriously injured in a head-on crash in Upper Freehold Township, authorities said.
A 23-year-old Rumson man was driving a Jeep Laredo west on Route 537 at 2:50 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17 when he crossed over the center line to pass vehicles in front of him, said Sgt. Philip Curry, a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
John Shovelin III, the Jeep's driver, slammed head-on into an eastbound Buick Enclave, Curry said.
Eleanor Reuther, the 79-year-old Manalapan woman driving the Buick near milepost 34.4, was killed in the crash, he said.
Shovelin was hosp…
