{"id":141761,"date":"2026-02-22T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:09:10","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-multi-vehicle-crash-on-new-jersey-turnpike-in-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141761\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed in Multi-Vehicle Crash on New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth<\/a><\/p>\n

By: Tracie Carter\u00a0
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An active and ongoing investigation is underway after a pedestrian was struck and killed on the New Jersey Turnpike Saturday night.<\/p>\n

<\/a>According to preliminary information, the incident occurred just before 9:30 p.m. on the southbound outer roadway near mile marker 100.5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Authorities say an individual exited a vehicle and was subsequently struck by multiple passing vehicles, triggering a chain reaction that led to several additional crashes in the area.
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Emergency responders arrived at the scene and performed CPR on the victim, but those lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The individual was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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The circumstances surrounding why the person exited the vehicle and the sequence of events that followed, remain under investigation by the New Jersey State Police.<\/p>\n

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No further details have been released at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Authorities say the investigation remains active, and additional information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth By: Tracie Carter\u00a0\u00a0 An active and ongoing investigation is underway after a pedestrian was struck and killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-141761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}