{"id":8056,"date":"2022-07-22T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2022-07-22T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:01:59","slug":"three-dead-in-toms-river-accident-friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2022\/07\/three-dead-in-toms-river-accident-friday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Dead in Toms River Accident Friday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police confirmed three people, all passengers in a vehicle, died early Friday morning after their car was struck by a flatbed tow truck after the driver proceeded through a red light. The driver, Tina Dung, 21, of Maryland, survived the crash.<\/p>\n

The accident occurred at 12:25 a.m. Friday morning at the intersection of Lakehurst Road and Hospital Drive.<\/p>\n

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The initial investigation by police revealed Dung was stopped for the traffic light before she \u201cproceeded through the red signal and collided with a Legacy Towing flatbed wrecker heading east on Lakehurst Road.\u201d The three passengers in Dung\u2019s car, all citizens of China, died as a result of the injuries they sustained in the collision. The victims, a 54-year-old man, a 52-year-old woman, and a 23-year -old man, were all from same family, police said.<\/p>\n

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Neither driver showed signs of impairment, according to a statement from police. Dung sustained minor injuries as a result of the accident and received a citation for failure to observe a traffic signal.<\/p>\n

Neither the driver nor passenger of the tow truck were injured.<\/p>\n

The crash remains under investigation by Toms River Police Traffic Safety Officers, Corporal Terry Warren and Michael Cassidy, and the Ocean County Prosecutors Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police confirmed three people, all passengers in a vehicle, died early Friday morning after their car was struck by a flatbed tow truck after the driver proceeded through a red light. The driver, Tina Dung, 21, of Maryland, survived the crash. The accident occurred at 12:25 a.m. Friday morning at the intersection of Lakehurst Road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[81,1080,1637,318,1638,11],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-fatal-accident","tag-featured","tag-hospital-drive","tag-lakehurst-road","tag-tina-dung","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\/8056","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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/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=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}