Man dies in crash after police attempt traffic stop in South Jersey
The fatal crash happened around 4:40 a.m. near the intersection of Route 73 and Lincoln Drive in Evesham Township.
A man was killed in a crash that occurred after police tried to stop his vehicle early Friday morning in Evesham Township, Burlington County, authorities said.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating the incident because it involved an Evesham Township police officer who was not named.
Shortly before 4:40 a.m., the officer driving a marked police vehicle attempted a traffic stop of a civilian vehicle, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
“As the civilian vehicle was driving, it collided with a second, uninvolved civilian vehicle near the intersection of Route 73 and Lincoln Drive in Evesham,” the attorney general’s office said.
The civilian driver, who was not identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The statement did not specify why the traffic stop was attempted and did not say if the motorist was fleeing police before the crash.
The attorney general’s office said the police vehicle was not involved in the crash.
An earlier statement by Evesham Police Chief Thomas Reinholt did say that a member of the police department “was removed from the scene for non-life-threatening medical treatment.”
No other injuries were reported.