Police: Man, 62, dies after off-road vehicle drives into lake in Ocean County
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MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Authorities in Ocean County say a 62-year-old man is dead after the utility terrain vehicle he was riding in drove into a lake and became submerged in 25-feet of water Saturday night.
Officers from the Manchester Township Police Department were called to Heritage Minerals Mine on Route 70 around 8:30 p.m. for reports of an accident. A group told officers they were riding off-road vehicles on the property when one of the vehicles drove into a lake.
One of the passengers, identified by police as James Grover, did not resurface. Emergency rescue divers found Grover strapped into the vehicle 25-feet below the surface. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
1 killed after off-road vehicle plunges into lake at former mining site
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
One man was killed after a utility terrain vehicle with four aboard overturned into a lake at a former mining site in Manchester on Saturday night.
It is the second suspected drowning in six months at Crystal Lake within the privately-owned Heritage Minerals Mine, a spokesperson for the Ocean County prosecutor’s office told NJ Advance Media on Sunday.
The mining property covers 7,000 acres and is closed to the public.
James Grover, 62, of Howell, was still attached to the UTV a larger version of an all-terrain vehicle that can hold multiple people by his safety harness when it was located overturned and submerged in 25 feet of water, the Ocean County prosecutor’s office and Manchester Police Chief Lisa Parker said in a joint statement.