Aharon Lebovits, Shlomo Cohen, Chaim Grossman, and Yaakov Kilberg died in fatal Carneys Point Township car crash

Aharon Lebovits, Shlomo Cohen, Chaim Grossman, and Yaakov Kilberg died in fatal Carneys Point Township car crash

The fatal Carneys Point Township car crash resulted in the deaths of four men, including three eighteen-year-olds and a nineteen-year-old, early Sunday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike, state police confirmed.

The eighteen-year-olds killed were identified as Aharon Lebovits and Shlomo Cohen, residents of Lakewood, and Chaim Grossman, from Fallsburg, New York. The nineteen-year-old was Yaakov Kilberg, also from Lakewood.

According to state police, the eighteen-year-olds were passengers in a Mazda, being driven by the nineteen-year-old, Yaakov Kilberg, traveling southbound in the inside left lane near milepost 1.3 at approximately 12:45 a.m. State police reported that a Dodge pickup truck, driven by forty-one-year-old Christopher Neff from Westminster, Colorado, was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes at that time.

Investigators explained that the Dodge and the Mazda collided head-on. Following this initial impact, a tractor-trailer vehicle, which was traveling southbound in the right lane behind the Mazda, collided with the car containing the young men, according to the New Jersey State Police.

The multi-vehicle crash’s impacts led to the deaths of Kilberg, Grossman, Lebovits, and Cohen. State police noted that Neff also sustained serious injuries, while the tractor-trailer driver was uninjured.

The Carneys Point Fire Department and Rescue Squad expressed gratitude towards the emergency responders for their careful and thorough efforts in extricating several of the crash victims.

Additionally, the department reported that one of the vehicles struck by the tractor-trailer subsequently caught fire following the collision.