{"id":13658,"date":"2018-10-30T21:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13658"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:34:54","slug":"head-on-crash-on-route-70-in-pemberton-claims-life-of-brick-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/10\/head-on-crash-on-route-70-in-pemberton-claims-life-of-brick-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-On Crash on Route 70 in Pemberton Claims Life of Brick Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1669\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-400x280.png 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-600x421.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brick Township man succumbed to injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on Route 70 in Pemberton Township, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pemberton Township police, Matthew A. Ziegler, 41, of Brick, was driving a 2009 Mazda3 eastbound on Route 70 about 10 p.m. Monday night when his car was hit by a 2018 Toyota Highlander driven by Ruthann Demarco-Williams, 63, of New Castle, Del.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Brian Smith said Demarco-Williams had been driving in the westbound lane and veered over the center line of the highway, leading to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler was pronounced dead at the scene. Demarco-Williams was airlifted to Capital Health System in Trenton. Police said both drivers were wearing their seatbelts.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was witnessed by a Waretown man who was driving a dump truck. According to the police statement, the dump truck driver swerved to avoid the crash but ended up driving between the two vehicles and striking the Toyota\u2019s front end.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is being asked to call Pemberton police at 609-894-3308 or the department\u2019s confidential tip line at 609-894-3352.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/10\/head-on-crash-on-route-70-in-pemberton-claims-life-of-brick-man\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brick Township man succumbed to injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on Route 70 in Pemberton Township, officials said. According to Pemberton Township police, Matthew A. Ziegler, 41, of Brick, was driving a 2009 Mazda3 eastbound on Route 70 about 10 p.m. Monday night when his car was hit by a 2018 Toyota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3511,1742,3512,287],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-matthew-a-ziegler","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-pemberton-township","tag-route-70"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}