1 killed in 5-car crash on Tacony-Palmyra Bridge
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
One person was killed in a five-car crash on the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Monday night, officials said.
Two cars were driving west towards Philadelphia when one car clipped the other, sending it into the eastbound lane, causing a head-on collision with a Honda Civic. Five cars in total were involved, and the first two appeared to have been speeding, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said in a release.
The driver of the Honda was pronounced dead at the scene. Their identity is not being released, as the family has not yet been informed, officials said.
PALMYRA - A Camden man died and five people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash Monday evening on the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, authorities say.
The accident started in the bridge s westbound lanes when one vehicle clipped another and sent it into the path of an eastbound car around 6:50 p.m., said the Burlington County Prosecutor s Office.
The driver of the eastbound car, 35-year-old Gerardo Francisco Perez Martinez, died in a head-on collision it said.
An investigation into the crash is ongoing. The driver of the Civic was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which ultimately involved five vehicles, said an account from the prosecutor s office.
Authorities offer $5k for info on fatal shooting of Beverly City man
MOUNT HOLLY Authorities are offering thousands of dollars to anyone who can help solve the fatal shooting of a Beverly City man in October.
The Burlington County Prosecutor s Office announced Tuesday it was offering $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the fatal shooting of city resident Octavius Williams.
Williams was shot in the chest outside of Delacove Homes just after 10 p.m. on Oct. 23. He was pronounced dead after being transported to Virtua Willingboro. There was a lot of activity in the area when Mr. Williams was shot, so I am quite certain there were witnesses who could assist our investigation,” Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said.
Atlantic City man charged in fatal overdose of Evesham woman
Kahlil Carpenter, 30, was charged Tuesday with strict liability for drug-induced death and other drug charges.
Carpenter is accused of selling the fentanyl-laced heroin that caused Holly Morris to fatally overdose in her Evesham Township home.
The body of Morris was discovered by Evesham Police officers last December in her bedroom on Inverness Circle.
According to the Burlington County Prosecutor s office, autopsy results showed the fentanyl levels in her system were five times greater than the amount necessary to cause death.
Investigators determined Morris met Carpenter in Lumberton the day prior to her death to buy the drugs.
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