Fire Rescue News - A dozen people hurt in Route 30 crash in Galloway Township
By EMILY PREVITI | Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 3 comments
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Police are investigating a four-vehicle accident that sent a dozen people to the hospital Monday afternoon.
Traffic was reduced to one lane on Route 30 near the crash site at Fir Avenue until about 3:52 p.m., one hour after the collision, according to a statement from Galloway Township police....Continue Reading
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Driver Silvana Snider, 45, of Egg Harbor City, was hospitalized after the accident, along with three developmentally disabled people riding with her in a van from Career Opportunity Development Inc., police said.
Seven physically disabled passengers in a Family Services minibus also were sent to the hospital. Driver William Faust, 62, of Mays Landing, was not injured, police said.
Investigators did not provide the names of the van and minibus passengers.
Police issued a summons to Larenne Metz, 20, of Galloway Township, for careless driving for allegedly starting the chain-reaction accident by rear-ending a Honda driven by 30-year-old Umang Modi, of Ozone Park, N.Y., police said.
Metz was hurt; Modi was not.
Hospital personnel could not immediately provide more details on the victims' injuries, which Galloway Township Detective Sgt. Paul Dooner described as nonlife-threatening.
Some passengers were transported as a precaution, Dooner said.
Modi had been traveling eastbound and was waiting to turn left onto Fir Avenue when Metz hit his car, forcing it into the opposite lane and the Family Services minibus, police said. The westbound minibus was forced into oncoming, eastbound traffic and hit the CODI van, police said.
Ambulance squads from Galloway Township, Absecon and Pleasantville drove injured drivers and passengers to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland and City campuses in Galloway Township and Atlantic City.
Police ask that anyone with information about the accident contact Galloway Township police Officer Dan Weigle at 609-652-3705, ext. 092.
Contact Emily Previti: 609-272-7221 EPreviti@pressofac.com
Posted in ATLANTIC on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:30 am Updated: 10:26 am.
