Fire Rescue News - Oakcrest student, 17, killed in Mullica crash
From Press staff reports | Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 0 comments
A 17-year-old girl was killed Thursday afternoon after her car went off Weekstown Road and struck a tree in Mullica Township, police said.
Katie Murray, 17, of the Green Bank section of Washington Township, Burlington County, was driving alone on Weekstown Road just east of Columbia Road at 3:05 p.m., when her car left the road and hit a tree head-on, police said.
Murray, a student at Oakcrest High School, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. She was wearing a seat belt.
Mullica Township fire companies and Hammonton Emergency Medical Service also responded, police said.
Any witnesses are urged to call Mullica Township police at 609-561-7600.
