May 21, 2024
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)–On Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 3:02 PM, Hopewell Township Police officers were dispatched to a single car motor vehicle crash on County Route 518 just outside of Hopewell Borough. Officers arrived on scene and found a grey colored Saturn sedan off the roadway in a wooded area between The Kings Path and Aunt Molly Road.
The initial investigation shows that the driver of the Saturn was traveling west on County Route 518, when he went off the roadway into a wooded area and struck a tree. The driver of the Saturn, a 21 year old from Pennington NJ, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The crash is being investigated by Officer George Peterson and Detective Steven Ciosek of the Hopewell Township Police Department, as well as Detectives from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Serious Collision Response Team.
Anyone who may have witnessed this crash is asked to contact Detective Steven Ciosek at 609-737-3100 ext. 5500 or [email protected].
May 21, 2024
TRENTON, NJ (Mercer) – Firefighters rescued one person from a burning rowhouse during a two-alarm blaze early this morning (Tuesday, May 21, 2024).
The person, believed to be a squatter who was discovered on the first floor inside the supposedly vacant structure, reportedly suffered smoke inhalation and, after being removed from the burning building by firefighters, was rushed by Trenton EMS ambulance to Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
It was shortly after 1:15 a.m. when Engines 10, 6 and 7, Ladder 4 and Rescue 1 were dispatched after the city’s 911 communications center received a call reporting that smoke could be seen coming from the rear of the vacant three-story rowhouse at 20 Seward Avenue, off Lincoln Avenue.
Battalion Chief Kevin Rice and first-due companies arrived to find heavy fire showing out the front second-floor windows of the structure, with flames impinging on overhead power lines at the front of the building. The “All Hands” signal for a working fire was transmitted, which resulted in the balance of the first alarm assignment – Engine 1, Ladder 2 and Special Services 1 – being sent to the scene.
Firefighters forced entry to the boarded-up structure at 20 Seward Avenue. Once inside, they started to combat the blaze and conduct a primary search for possible victims. They simultaneously evacuated residents from the occupied structure on the left side (22 Seward) and forced entry and started to search the vacant structure on the right side (18 Seward).
The search of 20 Seward Avenue resulted in firefighters locating the victim amid the smoke on the first floor and passing that person to Trenton EMS.
A second alarm, which brought Engine 8 to the scene, was transmitted for additional manpower to suppress the fire. Multiple hoselines were put in service. Firefighting operations were briefly complicated by the burning overhead power lines, which threw off showers of sparks before PSE&G personnel arrived and shut off the power.
Capital Health paramedics and a Ewing EMS ambulance were also on scene. The cause of the blaze is under investigation by authorities.
