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Jackson girl, 15, 'critical' after car strikes utility pole
Published in the Asbury Park Press 11/09/04
By MARGARET F. BONAFIDE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
JACKSON -- A 15-year-old township girl was critically injured yesterday when a stolen car she was riding in crashed on Hyson Road following a short police pursuit.
Two other teens were also hospitalized after the 3:30 p.m. crash, which also left hundreds of people without power.
The Jackson girl was in the back seat in a 2000 Ford Taurus being driven by a 15-year-old Connecticut girl who had stolen her mother's car, authorities said.
The mother of the Connecticut teen yesterday called the teen's grandmother, who lives in Jackson, and said the girl had stolen her car and might be driving to Jackson, said Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Robert A. Gasser. The teen's uncle also lives in Jackson, he said.
The grandmother alerted Jackson police, who later spotted the car in the township and began to follow it, Gasser said. The officer pursued the car for two minutes before ending the pursuit at his supervising officer's orders. The car continued into a neighborhood on Hyson Road and crashed, Gasser said.
"It was not a high-speed chase," Gasser said. "That is not saying that (the teen's vehicle) was not in excess of the speed limit when it veered off the roadway, hit several trees and the pole."
The names of the officers were being withheld last night, as Prosecutor's Office investigators Joe Aulisi and Sgt. John Mount had not yet been able to question them.
"I was standing there waiting for my daughter to get off the bus when I heard a loud bang," said Elaine Arneth, 40, of Hyson Road. "I saw a car that you couldn't even tell it was a car . . . Then a transformer blew and that caught on fire. Then police came to rescue people and they rerouted the school buses."
Jerry Ricciardi, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power & Light Co., said 1,500 customers lost power, and all but 39 of them had it restored by 5:30 p.m. The remaining customers were expected to be restored by midnight, after the utility pole was replaced.
Arneth's daughter, a fourth-grade student, saw the crash as her bus, the first one to come down the street, had to stop at the scene and make a K-turn to turn around, said Arneth, who still had no power at 9:15 last night.
The Connecticut teen's 17-year-old boyfriend, also from Connecticut, was the front-seat passenger in the car, which was destroyed in the crash. All three teens were taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.
The Connecticut teens were in stable condition. None of their names were released because they are juveniles, Gasser said.
Published in the Asbury Park Press 11/09/04
By MARGARET F. BONAFIDE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
JACKSON -- A 15-year-old township girl was critically injured yesterday when a stolen car she was riding in crashed on Hyson Road following a short police pursuit.
Two other teens were also hospitalized after the 3:30 p.m. crash, which also left hundreds of people without power.
The Jackson girl was in the back seat in a 2000 Ford Taurus being driven by a 15-year-old Connecticut girl who had stolen her mother's car, authorities said.
The mother of the Connecticut teen yesterday called the teen's grandmother, who lives in Jackson, and said the girl had stolen her car and might be driving to Jackson, said Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Robert A. Gasser. The teen's uncle also lives in Jackson, he said.
The grandmother alerted Jackson police, who later spotted the car in the township and began to follow it, Gasser said. The officer pursued the car for two minutes before ending the pursuit at his supervising officer's orders. The car continued into a neighborhood on Hyson Road and crashed, Gasser said.
"It was not a high-speed chase," Gasser said. "That is not saying that (the teen's vehicle) was not in excess of the speed limit when it veered off the roadway, hit several trees and the pole."
The names of the officers were being withheld last night, as Prosecutor's Office investigators Joe Aulisi and Sgt. John Mount had not yet been able to question them.
"I was standing there waiting for my daughter to get off the bus when I heard a loud bang," said Elaine Arneth, 40, of Hyson Road. "I saw a car that you couldn't even tell it was a car . . . Then a transformer blew and that caught on fire. Then police came to rescue people and they rerouted the school buses."
Jerry Ricciardi, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power & Light Co., said 1,500 customers lost power, and all but 39 of them had it restored by 5:30 p.m. The remaining customers were expected to be restored by midnight, after the utility pole was replaced.
Arneth's daughter, a fourth-grade student, saw the crash as her bus, the first one to come down the street, had to stop at the scene and make a K-turn to turn around, said Arneth, who still had no power at 9:15 last night.
The Connecticut teen's 17-year-old boyfriend, also from Connecticut, was the front-seat passenger in the car, which was destroyed in the crash. All three teens were taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.
The Connecticut teens were in stable condition. None of their names were released because they are juveniles, Gasser said.