Two Women Injured in Crash on Atlantic City Expressway

Sunday, June 08 2008 @ 04:54 pm EDT

Contributed by: CBrining

From the Atlantic City Press Published: Sunday, June 08, 2008

By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL Staff Writer, 609-272-7227

PLEASANTVILLE - Two women were pinned by their car and extricated with nonlife-threatening injuries after the car they were in was struck and landed upside-down in the parking lot of the Atlantic City Visitors Center, State Police said.

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The accident happened at about 3:40 p.m. in the left southbound lane of the Atlantic City Expressway. By 4:10 p.m., emergency personnel had removed two people from underneath a flattened brown Buick with New Jersey disabled-driver plates. Both were seen moving on stretchers; their names could not be determined at the scene.

Albertino Covelli saw the crash from inside his car in the parking lot, he said.

"She was coming off the expressway. I think she just hesitated," Covelli said of the Buick's driver. He said an NJ Transit bus that was not exiting struck the Buick on a back corner.

The car flipped over the barrier, "somersaulted" twice and landed about 6 feet from Covelli's vehicle, he said. The bus was parked in the shoulder just ahead of the crash scene during the rescue.

One victim had a head injury, but neither's life was considered to be in danger, police said. Ambulances took the victims to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City. As crews removed the victims, a northbound driver slowed down to see the overturned car. That car was rear-ended with a loud crunch, then both vehicles immediately drove out of sight.

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