Fire-Rescue News- FAMILY SEARCHES FOR CLOSURE AFTER FATAL CAR CRASH IN MULLICA TWP

MULLICA TOWNSHIP -- Richard Rivera & Beth Acevedo gather at this spot along a busy stretch of the White Horse Pike in Mullica Township.
They're here grieving the loss of their 29-year-old daughter Christina Rivera, killed last Wednesday in a head-on car crash.....Continue Reading

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"She was a beautiful lady doing her part, raising her kids, working. Doing everything she can. This is such a tragedy for our family," said Richard Rivera, the victim’s father.

"She was a beautiful person...She didn’t deserve this. She had 4 beautiful kids," tearfully said Beth Acevedo, Christina’s stepmother.

Christina Rivera and her boyfriend’s mother Belinda Dillihay, both of Atlantic City, died when a Jeep Wrangler hit Rivera’s car head-on.

Belinda’s 13-year-old grandson Imodd also in the car survived with broken arms and legs. He still remains hospitalized.

Rivera’s dad searches for answers.

"We need to find closure. If somebody has any kind of information needs to come forward so that way the family will have closure and know what happened," said Richard Rivera."

Investigators are questioning Ottoway Harrison a 29-year-old Mullica Township man who was in the Jeep Wrangler that hit Rivera’s car. He suffered non-threatening injuries from the crash and investigators say there may have been others in the Jeep Wrangler who fled the scene.

Christina Rivera’s step mom pleads for the public help in solving this accident.

"For anyone that has any type of information whatsoever on the incident that occurred here on march the 31st please find it in your heart to come forward," said Acevedo.

All the family can do for now is turn to each other for comfort and wait for answers, answers that may bring them some closure.

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