WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) - A car rear-ended a tractor-trailer at an intersection in New Jersey, killing three women, police said Saturday.
The 2012 Nissan Altima struck the truck as it was pulling away from a stoplight just before midnight Friday in Woodbridge, Sgt. Philip Agosta said Saturday.
Michaela Powell, 23, and Uchechukw Chukwuma, 24, were pronounced dead at the scene, Agosta said.
Brianna Martinez, 23, was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Agosta said all three were from the Somerset section of Franklin Township.
The crash remains under investigation, and anyone with information is asked to call investigators.
The three young women all graduated together from Franklin High School in 2014, NJ.com reported.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and friends of these young women,” said Nancy LaCorte, president of the Franklin Board of Education.
Assemblyman Joseph Danielsen, D-17th, called the accident a “tragedy” in a Facebook post on Saturday.
“Our hearts are broken,” Danielsen wrote. “Please keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers.”
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