Passenger Got Out Of DWI Driver's Jeep When She Was Struck Dead By Car On GSP: Police

A woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the Garden State Parkway while the DWI operator of the Jeep she had been a passenger in was stopped in the shoulder, authorities said.

Cecilia Levine

10/02/2022 8:45 p.m.

Judith Morillo-Rosario, 53, of Haskell, had gotten out of the Jeep Wrangler driven by Barry Braunstein, 66, of Haskell, around 7:20 p.m. in the southbound lanes in Toms River, a New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said.

Morillo-Rosario got out of the Jeep and entered the southbound lanes of travel, when she was struck by a southbound car and died, Curry said. The vehicle that struck Morillo-Rosario did not stop and continued traveling southbound.

Braunstein was arrested and charged with DWI. The right and center lanes of the GSP southbound were closed for approximately five hours.

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