{"id":7548,"date":"2016-02-09T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:36:14","slug":"cell-phone-distraction-cited-as-cause-for-driver-hitting-brick-girl-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/cell-phone-distraction-cited-as-cause-for-driver-hitting-brick-girl-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Distraction Cited as Cause for Driver Hitting Brick Girl, 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7549\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-09-at-3.34.37-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7549\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7549\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-09-at-3.34.37-PM.png\" alt=\"The intersection of Sally Ike and Lanes Mill roads. (Credit: Google)\" width=\"573\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-09-at-3.34.37-PM.png 573w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-09-at-3.34.37-PM-400x262.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intersection of Sally Ike and Lanes Mill roads. (Credit: Google)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police have charged a township woman with operating her vehicle while using a cell phone after she struck a 16-year-old girl, also from Brick, with her car Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, Vicki Asaro, was also issued a summons for careless driving.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brick Police Sgt. Neal Pedersen, Asaro was traveling southbound on Sally Ike Road at about 12:43 p.m. and was in the process of making a right turn onto Lanes Mill Rd southbound when she was distracted by her cell phone.\u00a0 When Asaro looked down at her phone, she hit a curb and struck a street sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter striking the street sign she continued and struck the juvenile who was walking on the sidewalk,\u201d Pedersen said.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile was thrown several feet and suffered a leg injury. Brick Police EMS and paramedics responded and transported the girl, whose name was not released, to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/cell-phone-distraction-cited-as-cause-for-driver-hitting-brick-girl-16\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick police have charged a township woman with operating her vehicle while using a cell phone after she struck a 16-year-old girl, also from Brick, with her car Monday. The driver, Vicki Asaro, was also issued a summons for careless driving. According to Brick Police Sgt. Neal Pedersen, Asaro was traveling southbound on Sally Ike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7549,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[24,1909],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-vicki-asaro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-09-at-3.34.37-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1XK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","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=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}