A New Jersey state trooper and another man were killed in a head-on highway crash.
It happened around 7 p.m. Monday on State Route 55 in Millville, in the southern part of the state.
A man traveling southbound in his Toyota Corolla crossed the grass median, entered the northbound lanes and crashed head-on into a marked state police vehicle. Trooper Frankie Williams was on duty and responding to a call at the time of the collision, state police said in a statement early Tuesday.
The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene. Trooper Williams, 31, was flown to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was pronounced dead, state police said.
News helicopter video showed the mangled cars and debris littering the roadway. The crash remained under investigation early Tuesday.
State police said Williams, of Atlantic County, was a member of the 156th State Police Class, which graduated January 29, 2016. He was assigned to Port Norris Station.
No other information was immediately available.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Want to bet, it was an ILLEGAL DRIVING DRUNK? DEPORTATION IS THE ANSWER.
So young. Tragic that so many officers are dying; either by drunk drivers or being shot. Just pray to God that this insane stuff ends soon.
Curious to know if this was intentional and if the person was illegal or associated to any left leaning groups like BLM or if it were just another drunk idiot?