Crime & Safety
Three Lakewood Women Still Recovering From Route 9 Accident, Toddler Released
Women who were struck by a pickup truck on Route 9 in Bayville are recovering at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Three Lakewood women are recovering in stable condition today, after being as they were attempting to cross Route 9 at Frederick Drive, police said.
The women had just been dropped off by a southbound New Jersey Transit bus at the bus stop near Frederick Drive when the accident occurred, police said.
Marasel Cardoza, 32, Evette Cardoza, 26 and a 13-year-old female juvenile whose name and age are not being released — all of Morris Boulevard in Lakewood — are recuperating from their injuries at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, said Lt. Anthony Chiorazzi.
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The women had been airlifted there shortly after the accident occurred. A three-year-old girl one of the women was holding suffered only minor abrasions in the accident and has been released from the hospital, Chiorazzi said.
The driver, Thomas Caranno, 70, Bayville, was driving his 1998 pickup truck southbound when the truck struck the women, said Sgt. Philip Smith yesterday.
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It does not appear that alcohol or excessive speed were a factor in the accident, Smith said.
Route 9 in the area of Frederick Drive was closed for northbound and southbound almost two hours after the accident, according to police.
The accident is under investigation by Berkeley Police Officers Tammy Clermont and Rip Bondulich and the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, Smith said.
