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Driver Was DUI In Crash That Killed NJ Lieutenant's Wife, 3-Year-Old Daughter: Prosecutor Driver Was DUI In Crash That Killed NJ Lieutenant's Wife, 3-Year-Old Daughter: Prosecutor
Driver Was DUI In Crash That Killed NJ Lieutenant's Wife, 3-Year-Old Daughter: Prosecutor An Ocean County man was under the influence of drugs when he caused the crash that killed the wife and daughter of a New Jersey corrections officer over the summer, authorities announced. Thomas F. Polson, 53, of Little Egg Harbor, was in a Ford F350 pickup truck when he left the southbound lane on Siloam Road and struck an SUV before slamming into Denise James' minivan head-on on July 14 in Freehold, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said. James, 42, was pronounced dead at the scene while her 3-year-old daughter with Lt. Craig James died at a local hospital, and became an org…

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by Jon Craig & Cecilia Levine
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HEROES: Physician Assistant, Off-Duty Firefighter Rescue NJ Turnpike Driver Engulfed In Flames HEROES: Physician Assistant, Off-Duty Firefighter Rescue NJ Turnpike Driver Engulfed In Flames
Heroes: Physician Assistant, Off-Duty Firefighter Rescue NJ Turnpike Driver Engulfed In Flames A Good Samaritan and off-duty corrections officer extinguished a fire that consumed box truck driver after crashing on the NJ Turnpike Monday afternoon in Union County. Jordan Reed was headed southbound when he saw the tractor-trailer cab hit a sign pole about a mile before Exit 12 and burst into flames around 1:15 p.m. in Linden, he told Daily Voice. Reed -- an emergency medicine physician's assistant with a decade of experience as an EMT -- pulled over to render aid to the driver -- who was fully-engulfed in flames. "He had been already removed from his truck by a New Jersey corrections …

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by Cecilia Levine