Empty beer bottles were found in the tan sedan involved in a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a 57-year-old Trenton, N.J. man who had recently moved from Morrisville, authorities said.
Falls Township police said the driver, a 50-year-old Morrisville man, admitted the two were drinking alcohol before the southbound Route 13 crash that sent the car off the highway, along the guardrail and into Martin’s Creek.
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Officials are expected to press charges against the driver of the car, sources said.
The men were headed to a Bristol Township bar at roughly 70 mph to continuing drinking when the driver, who was not seriously injured, lost control and veered toward the concrete divider, police said. Through investigation, police said they determined the driver overcompensated by steering right and got caught on the metal guardrail, traveling 100 feet. The car hit the end of the rail, catapulted off the highway, down an embankment and “somersaulted into the air before crashing onto the bank of the creek, police said.
Neither of the men were wearing seat belts at the time, according to police.
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An autopsy on the victim was performed Friday afternoon in Mercer County, which is where the Trenton man was pronounced dead, police said. Results are not yet available and release of the victim’s name is pending notification of his family.
First responders from several towns were called to the scene at 11:50 a.m. and had to cut the men from the mangled car, Falls Township Fire Company Chief Mike Mcclellan Sr. said on Thursday.
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Fire police closed the southbound portion of the road past Tyburn Road for several hours after the crash as police investigated the wreck and crews worked to remove the car.
Witnesses to the accident call Falls police accident investigator John Trindle at 215-949-9100 ext. 428.
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