{"id":6690,"date":"2021-08-10T01:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2021-08-10T01:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:44:56","slug":"toms-river-woman-52-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/08\/toms-river-woman-52-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Woman, 52, Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Toms River woman has died following a single-vehicle crash Monday morning.<\/p>\n

According to township police, Claudine Silvestri, 52, was traveling westbound on Route 571 in the left lane when she suddenly drifted into the right lane and struck a curb and a guard rail, a witness told police. The vehicle then veered to the left and entered the oncoming traffic lanes where she collided head-on with a sign truck before her vehicle caught fire.<\/p>\n

Police responded to the accident at 7 a.m. at Roue 571’s intersection with Oak Ridge Parkway. Upon arrival, police officers and EMTs extinguish the fire. Silvestri was trapped inside and had to be extricated from the vehicle, however she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n

Along with Toms River Police, Toms River EMT\u2018s, Pleasant Plains and Silverton Fire Companies, the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2018s Office, the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department CSI, and Berkeley Hazmat reported to the accident scene. The accident remains under investigation by Toms River Traffic Safety Officers Mark Nater and Ryan Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n

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A Toms River woman has died following a single-vehicle crash Monday morning. According to township police, Claudine Silvestri, 52, was traveling westbound on Route 571 in the left lane when she suddenly drifted into the right lane and struck a curb and a guard rail, a witness told police. The vehicle then veered to the […]<\/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":[1272,11],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-claudine-silvestri","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\/6690","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=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/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=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}