Woman dies on N.J. Turnpike
She was asleep in the back seat when the vehicle hit an illegally parked tractor-trailer.
A New York woman who was sleeping in the back seat of a car was killed Thursday when the vehicle crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer improperly parked on the left shoulder of a New Jersey Turnpike entrance ramp in Camden County, authorities said.
Ginger Dokie, 41, was thrown into the front of the passenger compartment of the Lincoln Town Car, said State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones.
Dokie, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees shortly after 7 a.m., Jones said.
The driver, Robert Joasilus, 50, of Bridgeport, Conn., was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was listed in critical condition, Jones said. He was wearing a seat belt.
Both victims had to be cut from the mangled wreckage, police said.
The crash occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m. at the entrance to the Walt Whitman service area in the southbound lanes of the turnpike in Cherry Hill, between Exits 4 and 3.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Robert J. Biczo, 55, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., was issued a traffic ticket for improper parking, Jones said.
Biczo was in the truck when the crash occurred. He had just gotten a cup of coffee and would have been pulling off shortly, Jones said.
State police are investigating.