One Killed, Another Injured In Separate Garden State Parkway Accidents

A pair of automobile accidents on the Garden State Parkway on Saturday morning left one person dead and another in need of a medevac response, according to the New Jersey State Police.

“We received a call time on the first accident of 7:03 a.m.,” said Trooper Christopher Kay of the New Jersey State Police. “It involved one passenger vehicle which left the Garden State Parkway northbound at mile marker 86.2, and the male driver was pronounced dead at the scene.”

Kay indicated that there was no evidence that the driver had any passengers. Identification is currently being withheld, pending notification of the driver’s next of kin.

the second accident took place exactly one mile north of the first one, at mile marker 87.2 of the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway, just 11 minutes later.

“It also involved a passenger vehicle which left the roadway and went into the woods,” said Kay. “A male driver was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center by medevac at between 8:15 and 8:20 a.m.”

Kay said that traffic lanes on the parkway were briefly closed to allow for the medevac landing, but that all lanes in both directions were re-opened at 9:05 a.m.

The trooper urged that anyone with information on either accident should call the Bass River Station of the New Jersey State Police at 609-296-1027.

Patch will have an update on this story, as more information becomes available.