Crime & Safety
Severe Crash on Parkway in Tinton Falls Tuesday; Rescue Workers Revive Driver
Rescue workers used debibrillator to revive driver who had no pulse when they arrived on the scene.
An approximately 50-year-old man drove off the Garden State Parkway in Tinton Falls on Tuesday and into the woods and made "severe impact" with a tree, according to Captain Thomas Wieczerzak.
Rescue workers found the driver pulled from the car and without a pulse when they arrived on the scene, said Wieczerzak. Workers administered CPR and used the defibrillator to restore the victime's pulse.
The accident occurred at the 105.1 mile marker in the southbound express lanes of the parkway.
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The driver, who was driving an unknown Hyundai model vehicle, was taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center and is "very much alive," according to Wieczerzak in a follow-up phone call, who said the driver had a pulse and blood pressure.
He said that the defibrillator used to revive the driver was one that had recently been purchased with a from New Jersey American Water Company.
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"We're psyched over here," he said of his fellow rescue workers' reaction to the patient's stabilized condition.
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