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The driver of a tractor trailer has been charged with three counts of death by auto following a New Jersey crash that killed three Levittown residents, including a young boy and a baby.
Richard Williams, 45, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was diving a tractor trailer on Route 1 in Lawrence, N.J. Friday night at around 6:30 when he made an illegal U turn, officials said in a press release. While the illegal turn was in progress, a Chevrolet Tahoe with a family of five from Levittown struck the trailer, officials said.
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Jamella Tisdale, 25, was killed, along with Jaeyon Durante, 9, and Jaden Tisdale, who was three and a half months old.
Crash victims 25-year-old Shaqwan Tisdale and Mellady Durante, 8, remain in the hospital in stable condition after they were freed by firefighters. Emergency radio reports indicated Friday evening that the accident required first responders from several communities.
Crash scene photos published on Trentonian.com showed that the SUV was mangled and lodged under the trailer.
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“Investigators say the SUV hit the side of the tractor trailer with such force, the wheels embedded into the concrete, trapping the family in the mangled metal,” a story on 6abc.com said.
Authorities are holding Williams at Mercer County Correctional Center on $100,000 bail.
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Witnesses to the crash are asked to call Lawrence Detective Jim Smith at 609-844-7133.
