{"id":968,"date":"2017-06-18T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=968"},"modified":"2017-06-18T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T17:35:50","slug":"girl-11-dies-after-freak-accident-in-toms-river-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/girl-11-dies-after-freak-accident-in-toms-river-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 11, Dies After Freak Accident in Toms River Lagoon"},"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>Despite the frantic efforts of responding police officers to revive a child following a freak accident in a township lagoon, an 11-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries Saturday,<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were called to\u00a045 Tobago Avenue at 8:12 p.m. Saturday, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. They immediately took over CPR and used an automate defibrillator on the girl, visiting from Newark, who name was not released.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim and two other girls were\u00a0were using an inflatable raft and swimming in the lagoon behind the home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls were\u00a0wearing lifejackets and in the presence of adults,\u201d Stocco said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the girls apparently touched the rail of a metal boat lift and\u00a0electric current appears to have energized the equipment, causing the injury. The child\u00a0was visiting friends at the Tobago Avenue address, Stocco said.<\/p>\n<p>The two other juvenile girls that\u00a0accompanied her were evaluated at the scene and determined to not be injured, said Stocco.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Community Medical Center where she succumbed to her injuries a few hours later, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police offered their condolences in a statement issued Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under investigation by Toms River Police Detectives Louis Santora and James Carey.\u00a0Also participating are Ocean County Prosecutors Office Detective Woodfield and Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s\u00a0Department C.S.I. Sergeant Deleeuw and Officer Menke.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/girl-11-dies-after-freak-accident-in-toms-river-lagoon\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the frantic efforts of responding police officers to revive a child following a freak accident in a township lagoon, an 11-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries Saturday, According to police, officers were called to\u00a045 Tobago Avenue at 8:12 p.m. Saturday, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. They immediately took over CPR and used an automate [&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":[374,375,373,372,11],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-accident","tag-boat-lift","tag-lagoon","tag-tobago-avenue","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\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/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=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}