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North Bergen, NJ, USA - Dec 09, 2022
The driver of a tractor trailer who crushed a 76-year-old woman crossing Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen and then drove 22 blocks before stopping may not face charges in the gruesome crash.
J.J. Cortes Garcia, 37, of Texas, told police he “never saw the pedestrian or knew he struck her until an unknown motorist stopped him at 69th Street and informed him,” the crash report for the Dec. 9 incident said.
The victim, whose identity has not been released while authorities search for her next-of-kin, was walking west across the state highway in the crosswalk, with the light, when Garcia made a right turn onto the roadway, a video of the crash posted on Twitter shows.
Cortes Garcia struck the woman with the right front side of the tractor trailer and the vehicles rear wheels crushed her as he continued south on the four-lane state highway also known at Route 1&9. This incident was the fourth death on Tonnelle Avenue this year.
Local safe streets advocates are stunned that Garcia has not been charged, especially since the video of the noontime crash clearly shows the victim in the middle of the crosswalk when Garcia begins his turn from 91st Street.
Cortes Garcia has not been charged criminally or cited with any motor vehicle violations, but the prosecutor's office said the crash investigation is active “to determine if it is criminal in nature.”
Special thanks to @D0M0 for providing the video of the accident.
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