{"id":18023,"date":"2021-04-06T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18023"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:23:44","slug":"brick-woman-killed-after-running-out-onto-route-70-on-foot-against-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/04\/brick-woman-killed-after-running-out-onto-route-70-on-foot-against-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Woman Killed After ‘Running Out’ Onto Route 70 on Foot, Against Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Police<\/a>

Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

A Brick woman lost her life Monday night after \u2013 according to witnesses \u2013 running out onto Route 70 against a traffic signal and outside of any crosswalk, leading to an investigation that shut down the major roadway for hours.<\/p>\n

According to a police report, Kathleen M. Winits, 55, was crossing Route 70 at Olden Street, going towards the Brick Motor Inn Motel, at about 6:55 p.m. The report said she had crossed Route 70 against the pedestrian crossing signal, and was not in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a 2020 Mercedes-Benz C300 being driven by Jennifer L. Squires, 43, of Brick, was traveling in the left travel lane, eastbound on Route 70, approaching the intersection with a green light. The car struck the pedestrian, then came to a controlled stop, according to police.<\/p>\n

Winits was determined to be deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Brick Township Police Traffic Safety Unit, the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Criminal Investigation Unit and the NJ Department of Transportation responded to assist with the investigation and traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWitnesses at the scene reported that the pedestrian ran out into traffic,\u201d a statement from Brick police said. \u201c[The] investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Traffic Safety Officer David Thergesen at the 732-451-2037.<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Brick woman lost her life Monday night after \u2013 according to witnesses \u2013 running out onto Route 70 against a traffic signal and outside of any crosswalk, leading to an investigation that shut down the major roadway for hours. According to a police report, Kathleen M. Winits, 55, was crossing Route 70 at Olden […]<\/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":false,"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":[24,4384,1742,3142,287],"class_list":["post-18023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-kathleen-m-winits","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-pedestrian-killed","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-4GH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023","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=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/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=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}