A high-speed pursuit on the Garden State Parkway ended in a chaotic multi-vehicle pileup Wednesday night, leaving several people injured and a 19-year-old in custody.<\/p>\n
The incident began around 8:45 p.m. when a New Jersey State Trooper from the Bloomfield Station attempted to stop a BMW traveling southbound near milepost 149.3. According to State Police, the driver refused to pull over, sparking a brief but violent pursuit.<\/p>\n
As the BMW attempted to flee, it struck a Toyota sedan, sending that vehicle off the roadway and into a concrete barrier. The BMW continued south, slamming into a Chrysler sedan and triggering a massive chain reaction.<\/p>\n
The resulting pileup involved a marked Ford troop car, a Hyundai SUV, and a Honda SUV. Both the Hyundai and Honda were forced off the road, where they struck concrete barriers. Debris from the impact was so significant that a piece of the Hyundai dislodged and struck a Ducati motorcycle traveling in the area.<\/p>\n
Despite the scale of the wreckage, authorities report that all drivers involved, as well as the State Trooper, sustained only minor injuries. Everyone was transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n
The driver of the BMW has been identified as Amani A. Walcott of Brooklyn, New York. Following the crash, Walcott was arrested and faces multiple charges, including second-degree eluding, fourth-degree aggravated assault, five counts of assault by auto, and possession of a fraudulent driver’s license.<\/p>\n
Walcott is currently being held at the Essex County Jail pending a detention hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-speed pursuit on the Garden State Parkway ended in a chaotic multi-vehicle pileup Wednesday night, leaving several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-232529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232529","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=232529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}