Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Office of Sen. James Holzapfel working to get answers from Turnpike Authority
Before Jerry Roselli put a 12 foot fence up along the back of his property on Todd Road in Toms River, he could not hear his wife call out to him while he was working in the backyard. In Brick, some residents have to hold family parties in their front yards. These are some of the issues homeowners are facing as the expansion of the Garden State Parkway continues. The project was said to increase shoulder width, remove obstructions, improve sight distance and reconstruct the roadway between mile markers 83 and 100 in both directions. “I literally now live on the parkway,” Margie McMahon of Parkway Drive in Brick said following a meeting with a representative from the office of Sen. James Holzapfel and Assemblymen Dave Wolfe and Greg …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Accident happened at mile marker 74.7 northbound, State Police say
A man who was trying to help push a disabled car off the northbound lane of the Garden State Parkway in Lacey Township died when a passing car struck and killed him early this evening, State Police said. Preliminary reports indicate the man was one of four who stopped to push the disabled car onto the shoulder of the roadway, Sgt. Adam Grossman said. "The person at the rear left of the vehicle was struck by a passing motor vehicle," he said. "Unfortunately it looks like a Good Samaritan...they are still trying to sort things out." The man - whose identify is being withheld for now - was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune by the Lacey Township First Aid Squad. "He was pronounced dead at the hospital," Grossman said. …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Closures expected through Oct. 26
Route 9 lane closures begin tonight for parkway deck repairs under mile 83. The bridge deck repairs over Routes 9 and 166 for Garden State Parkway mile 83 will shutter portions of the highway overnight starting Oct. 17. The lane closures are expected to continue through Oct. 26, according to the state Department of Transportation. Construction crews will close lanes of Route 9 and 166 in Toms River starting at 9 p.m. tonight. Both north and southbound traffic underneath the overpasses that make up Exit 83 will be affected. The undersides of the bridges need work, and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and DOT will close lanes to make repairs, DOT spokesperson Timothy Greeley said. Drivers should note construction crews and traffic cones in …
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Brandon Beebe - a 2009 graduate of Central Regional High School - was ejected from the vehicle, state police said.
A 21-year-old Island Heights man died from injuries suffered early Sunday morning after he was ejected from a motorcycle on the Garden State Parkway. Brandon Beebe was traveling north on the highway in Lacey Township, near milemarker 76, when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle, according to State Police Sergeat Brian Polite. The vehicle, a 2009 Yamaha, was traveling at a high rate of speed, Polite said. Beebe was transported to Community Medical Center by Lacey Township EMS where he was pronounced at 2:45 a.m, said Polite. The crash occurred at approximately 2 a.m. There was no indication of involvement from another vehicle, according to the preliminary investigation. State police identified Beebe as being from Toms River. But …
Friday, July 27, 2012
The troopers have been criminally charged in connection with the March 2012 incident.
Two New Jersey state troopers accused of leading a high-speed escort on the Garden State Parkway for a fleet of luxury cars have been criminally charged, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced. The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) received complaints regarding the March 2012 caravan to Atlantic City, and the troopers were subsequently suspended without pay in April. In a press conference in Trenton on Friday, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said the troopers who conducted the unauthorized escort "turned our highway into a virtual speedway." "What they did was absolutely wrong," he said. An investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice into the incident found that the troopers, Sgt. First Class Nadir Nassry, 47, and Trooper…
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Awaiting details on morning accident
A five-mile-long traffic backup is lasting into the afternoon hours following a fatal accident in the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway Tuesday morning. By 12:30 p.m., the state Department of Transportation was reporting a 5-mile backup in the northbound lanes extending from mile marker 92.5 in Brick, where the crash occurred, to mile marker 88 near Route 70 at the Brick-Lakewood border. The right lane is blocked south of the accident site, officials said. State Police confirmed one person died after a vehicle crashed into the woods just after 8:30 a.m. Police have not released the name of the person who died, nor additional details on what may have caused the crash. Patch will update the story when new information becomes …
Awaiting details on morning accident
A Toms River woman, the sole occupant of a blue Hyundai Santa Fe that went off the roadway of the northbound Garden State Parkway Tuesday morning, died from her injuries, state police said. Claire Baier, 56, was declared deceased at the scene, police said. There were some witnesses to the accident, who told police the vehicle "slowly drifted off the roadway," said State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones. The vehicle hit a guard rail before it flipped over into a wooded area, Jones said. Residual traffic delays from the 8:30 a.m. accident lasted through into the afternoon.
Friday, March 16, 2012
New Jersey Turnpike Authority divides plans into three stretches, while Ocean County addresses exits 83 and 91
The public hearing yesterday on the lane and shoulder widening and upgrades to interchanges 91 and 83 of the Garden State Parkway allowed the public to view the project plans. Here are some of the maps on display at the event, which will impact many travelers from the Berkeley Township area. The Brick Civic Plaza displayed the project — which stretches from miles 83 to 100 on the parkway — in multiple map boards. The main initiative to the project is to widen the shoulders and lanes along these miles, which are all lanes in blue. Shoulders and right-of-ways that are used as part of the widening to 12 foot shoulders are along the roadways in gray. Reddened areas denote bridges that will be widened. In Ocean County, bridgework at Route 571, …
Sunday, March 4, 2012
No vehicle lights on in early morning accident
An 87-year-old Cape May County man died in an early morning motor vehicle collision on the northbound Garden State Parkway in Barnegat on Sunday. The accident occured at approximately 2:48 a.m. near milemarker 68.2. As a result of the collision, Robert T. Pestridge Jr., Middle Township, was ejected out of his driver's side door and sustained massive head and neck trauma. He succumbed to the injuries on scene. MONOC pronounced the time of death at 3:26 a.m., according to NJ state police. During the course of the investigation, the southbound lanes were closed for approximately three hours due to a large debris field, State Trooper Adam Tighe said. At approximately 2:48 a.m., a Chevrolet S10 pickup truck operated by Pestridge entered the …
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
State Sen. Connors to co-sponsor legislation that would require Garden State Parkway oversight board to include members from southern New Jersey counties
District 9 legislators are pushing for more South Jersey representation on the Turnpike Authority's board of commissioners, elected officials said during a Tuesday constituent meeting in Galloway Township. “We’re not getting due consideration in this region,” said Sen. Christopher Connors, who was joined by Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove at the "Meet the Legislators" night at Galloway's municipal complex. Members of Galloway Township Council and the township’s residents remain unhappy with the possibility of closing the entrance to Jimmie Leeds Road off the Garden State Parkway there, and have been particularly angry about the assertion by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the roadway, that it “doesn’…
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