"The tragedy unfolded around 12:40 a.m. Sunday when the teens' southbound black Mazda CX-5 was struck head-on by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck heading along the same stretch in the wrong direction in Salem County, state police said on Facebook. The car then slammed into a Freightliner tractor-trailer, killing the driver of the Mazda, 19-year-old Yaakov Kilberg, and his three passengers, Aharon Lebovits, Shlomo Cohen and Chaim Grossman, all 18, the Asbury Park Press reported."
"Grossman was from upstate Fallsburg, NY, while the other teens were from Lakewood, NJ, where Grossman's grandparents live, reports said. The teens were all yeshiva students, according to Yeshiva World. The 41-year-old driver of the pickup truck, identified as Christopher Neff of Westminster, Colo., suffered serious injuries but survived, according to the outlet. The driver of the Freightliner was uninjured, authorities said."
Four teenagers were killed in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Salem County around 12:40 a.m. Sunday. A southbound black Mazda CX-5 was struck head-on by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling the wrong direction and then slammed into a Freightliner tractor-trailer. The Mazda driver, 19-year-old Yaakov Kilberg, and passengers Aharon Lebovits, Shlomo Cohen and Chaim Grossman, all 18, were killed. Grossman was from Fallsburg, NY, and the others were from Lakewood, NJ. The 41-year-old pickup driver, Christopher Neff of Westminster, Colo., suffered serious injuries but survived; the tractor-trailer driver was uninjured. State police said no arrests have been made and investigators are asking witnesses to contact Troop D Moorestown Station at 609-860-9000 ext. 3226; anonymous tips are welcome.
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