{"id":142149,"date":"2026-02-23T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142149\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:00:09","slug":"pa-man-killed-two-hurt-in-saturday-night-crash-on-nj-turnpike-in-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142149\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Man Killed, Two Hurt in Saturday Night Crash on NJ Turnpike in Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

By: Richard L. Smith\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Authorities are investigating a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred Saturday night on the New Jersey Turnpike in Union County.<\/p>\n

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According to Trooper Charles Marchan, members of the New Jersey State Police responded to a motor vehicle crash at approximately 9:01 p.m. on February 21 on the southbound outer roadway near milepost 100.5 in Elizabeth.
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Based on a preliminary investigation, a Toyota passenger vehicle operated by Roseanna Mohabeer, 31, of Elizabeth, was traveling southbound on the outer roadway in the area of the right shoulder near milepost 100.5.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of the Toyota, a Tesla passenger vehicle was reportedly parked on the right shoulder. James Guevarra, 54, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was standing outside the rear of the Tesla on the shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Tesla was occupied by passenger Frances Guevarra, 52, also of Langhorne.<\/p>\n

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State Police said the Toyota struck James Guevarra and then collided with the Tesla.<\/p>\n

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As a result of the crash, James Guevarra sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased. Frances Guevarra suffered moderate injuries, while Mohabeer sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n

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The incident remains under active investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth By: Richard L. Smith\u00a0 \u00a0 Authorities are investigating a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred Saturday night on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-142149","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\/142149","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=142149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}