{"id":2394,"date":"2018-10-16T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:12:23","slug":"teen-charged-after-crash-closes-busy-toms-river-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/10\/teen-charged-after-crash-closes-busy-toms-river-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Charged After Crash Closes Busy Toms River Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2395\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2395\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2395\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-1024x572.png\" alt=\"A car overturned on New Hampshire Avenue in Toms River. (Photo: TRPD)\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-752x420.png 752w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-640x357.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM-681x380.png 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM.png 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car overturned on New Hampshire Avenue in Toms River. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A single-vehicle crash tied up traffic along a stretch of New Hapshire Avenue in Toms River Monday night, culminating in a 17-year-old being taken to the hospital where he was issued a traffic summons.<\/p>\n<p>The 6:15 p.m. crash occurred on New Hampshire Avenue, just south of North Maple Avenue, police spokeswoman Jillian Messina said, when his vehicle struck a utility pole.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old male from Forked River, who was not identified because of his age, suffered several non-life threatening in injuries in the collision and was taken to Community Medical Center by Lakewood Police EMS, Messina said. Verizon utility crews were on scene replacing the pole, causing New Hampshire Ave to be shut down for several hours, producing a traffic backup during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Safety Officer Mark Nater is investigating the cause of the collision. The juvenile was charged with careless driving, police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/10\/teen-charged-after-crash-closes-busy-toms-river-road\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single-vehicle crash tied up traffic along a stretch of New Hapshire Avenue in Toms River Monday night, culminating in a 17-year-old being taken to the hospital where he was issued a traffic summons. The 6:15 p.m. crash occurred on New Hampshire Avenue, just south of North Maple Avenue, police spokeswoman Jillian Messina said, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[333,703,11],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-new-hampshire-avenue","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-11.27.42-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}