Crime & Safety

Two Additional Weekend Motor Vehicle Accidents Flip Cars on Routes 571 and 70

One near Brookside without injury, while a second near Lake Ridge sends three to hospital

beginning Friday afternoon involved collisions that flipped vehicles over, police said.

An accident at the entrance to Lake Ridge around 4 p.m. Saturday sent three to the hospital after a sedan and a pick-up truck collided, said Chief Michael Mastronardy.

The police chief said Rita Martino, 78, of Brenton Lane, was attempting to turn left into Lake Ridge Boulevard from Route 70 eastbound when her 2003 Toyota sedan collided with a 2004 Ford Ranger pick-up truck traveling westbound on Route 70.

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The accident caused the pick-up truck to roll over, trapping driver Larry Reynolds and passenger Nancy Reynolds, of Brick, inside the vehicle. Pleasant Plains Fire Company responders extricated the Reynoldses.

Martino and Nancy Reynolds were transported to Jersey Shore University Hospital and Larry Reynolds was transported to Community Medical Center.

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"This was the fourth rollover accident in 24 hours," said the police chief. He flipped through a stack of accident reports from the weekend.

was Bey Lea Road near North Bay that turned fatal after the driver traveling northbound was struck in a head-on collision with a vehicle that drifted into opposing traffic from the southbound lanes of Route 571. That accident occurred after 3 p.m. Friday.

a second overturned vehicle was the result of a collision on Garfield Avenue near Route 37, police said. It was a second head-on collision between two vehicles.

At 9:30 p.m., the third rollover accident on Friday when Jessica Comerford, 21, of Shady Lane lost control of her 2006 Chevrolet on Bay Avenue and Brookside Drive.  "Jessica stated she was eastbound on Bay Avenue when she went to talk to a passenger in the rear of the vehicle and she lost control of her car when it stuck the curb the car overturned," Mastronardy said.  

No one was injured in the crash and Comerford was charged with DUI, said the police chief.


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