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Media Release - DWI / Motor Vehicle Accident |
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Date
and Time: 10/10/2011 18:20 Location:
White Horse Pike & Pomona Road Number
of Vehicles: Two Type
of accident (Head on, pedestrian, etc.):
Two vehicle crash If
road closed, how long: North bound Pomona Road between The White Horse
Pike and Koch Avenue was closed for approximately one hour Name, age, sex, and city of drivers: Hyundai
– Grant Price 43yoM from Millville, NJ
Ford-Tarrant
Jones 20yoM from Galloway, NJ Year,
make, model of vehicles: 2009 Hyundai Sonata
1993 Ford Mustang Number
of injured: 3 Name
(unless juvenile), age, sex, and city of each injured: Grant
Price 43yo of Millville complained of neck pain and transported to Atlanticare
Regional Medical Center City Division.
Passenger
in Grant’s vehicle- Eric Walden of Galloway suffered injuries to his chest
and was transported to Atlanticare Regional Medical Center City Division. Tarrant
Jones – 20yo of Galloway injured his leg and collar bone and was transported
to Atlanticare Regional Medical Center Mainland Division. Assisting
agencies or departments: Pomona Volunteer Fire Company – Galloway
Township EMS – Atlanticare Paramedics Investigating
Officer: Officer Jacqueline Crocker #98 Summonses
issued: Grant Price was charged with Driving while intoxicated, Reckless
Driving, and Failure to yield. Describe how the collision occurred: Price
was driving his vehicle east bound on The White Horse Pike and attempted to
make a left turn onto Pomona Road.
Price turned in front of oncoming traffic and was struck by a Ford
Mustang driven by Tarrant Jones who was traveling west bound on The White
Horse Pike. Pomona
volunteer fire department responded to the accident and extricated Walden from
the vehicle. All
three individuals involved in the crash were transported to the hospital for
their injuries.
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