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Official hit by javelin was conscious after Rowan University accident

View Comments HARRISON - A track-and-field official fatally injured by a javelin mistakenly drifted into the path of a spear thrown by a college athlete, a police report shows. William A. Scott, 71, of Oaklyn was bleeding from a neck wound, but was alert, conscious and speaking to EMS units shortly after the noontime accident on April 3, according to an incident report from Rowan University s police department. Rowan EMS units were on standby at the scene when the incident occurred during an athletic competition, the Oscar Moore Invitational. Rowan police officers arrived about five minutes later at the school s sports fields on the 700 block of Mullica Hill Road in Harrison.

William Scott, a track official, dies following Rowan javelin accident

View Comments HARRISON - A man struck by a javelin at a college track-and-field meet survived the injury, but not an infection that followed, authorities say. William A. Scott, 71, died more than three weeks after being injured while working as an official at a competition of Rowan University, a school spokesman said Thursday. The Oaklyn man, who was injured April 3, died April 26 in the intensive care unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, according to an obituary. Details of the accident were not immediately available. Scott was an official for track and field in South Jersey for over 30 years, according to Carl Rickershauser, who is the NJSIAA track and field rules interpreter.

William Scott, a track official, dies following Rowan javelin accident

View Comments HARRISON - A man struck by a javelin at a college track-and-field meet survived the injury, but not an infection that followed, authorities say. William A. Scott, 71, died more than three weeks after being injured while working as an official at a competition of Rowan University, a school spokesman said Thursday. The Oaklyn man, who was injured April 3, died April 26 in the intensive care unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, according to an obituary. Details of the accident were not immediately available. Scott was an official for track and field in South Jersey for over 30 years, according to Carl Rickershauser, who is the NJSIAA track and field rules interpreter.

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