Police said the car ran off the right side of the road and hit a tree
LAKEWOOD -- Authorities identified the person killed Thursday in a single-car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Lakewood as a 26-year-old Barnegat man.
Joseph Hathaway was killed when his 2008 Honda Civic ran off the right side of the Parkway and hit a tree, said Trooper Lawrence Peele, a State Police spokesman.
Hathaway, who was wearing a seatbelt at the time, suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, Peele said.
The crash occurred at 12:17 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway at milepost 88.3 in Lakewood, police have said.
Peele said it was not immediately known why Hathaway's car ran off the road. He was the only person in the car, Peele said.
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