{"id":243,"date":"2016-12-21T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=243"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:09:04","slug":"pedestrian-suffers-serious-injury-in-fischer-blvd-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/pedestrian-suffers-serious-injury-in-fischer-blvd-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Suffers Serious Injury in Fischer Blvd. Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/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\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River police are investigating an accident that occurred Tuesday night during which a pedestrian was seriously injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police spokesman Ralph Stocco, Elizabeth Rapsas, of Egret Drive, was injured in a motor vehicle crash on Fischer Boulevard near Hazelwood Drive at about 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Rapsas was a pedestrian crossing Fischer from east to west, when she was struck in the southbound\u00a0right\u00a0lane. A 1999 Ford Windstar minivan, driven by Joseph E. Laplaca, of Bay Avenue, attempted to brake suddenly but skidded into Rapsas, Stocco said. As a result, her head struck the lower portion of the passenger side windshield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, there is no fault attributed to the driver of the minivan,\u201d said Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>Raspas was taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune where she is undergoing treatment for \u201cextensive injuries,\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/pedestrian-suffers-serious-injury-in-fischer-blvd-crash\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River police are investigating an accident that occurred Tuesday night during which a pedestrian was seriously injured, police said. According to police spokesman Ralph Stocco, Elizabeth Rapsas, of Egret Drive, was injured in a motor vehicle crash on Fischer Boulevard near Hazelwood Drive at about 8:30 p.m. Rapsas was a pedestrian crossing Fischer from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[71,38,72,34,11],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-elizabeth-rapsas","tag-fischer-boulevard","tag-joseph-e-laplaca","tag-pedestrian-struck","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}