Manchester Police say driver fatigue may have been a contributing factor to a fatal single-vehicle crash involving a Jeep Wrangler on Route 70 around 2:00 am Saturday morning.
Officers found the Jeep overturned in the wooded area near mile marker 35.5 along the left lane and shoulder of the highway.
Margaret Palilonis, 22, of Woolwich Township was heading west on Route 70, police said, when she veered off road and onto the shoulder where she drove along a grassy area, was able to get back on the road and re-entered the roadway but as she did the vehicle overturned multiple times before coming to rest on the other side of the road.
Whiting home uninhabitable after Friday morning fire
A duplex style home in the Whiting section of Manchester Township is uninhabitable following a Friday morning fire on Willow Court.
Manchester Police said they arrived on scene around 9:04 am and saw flames coming from the roof of the residence.
They able to confirm right away that nobody was home at the time but officers did start evacuating neighboring homes.
Police were soon joined on scene by firefighters from the Manchester, Ridgeway, and Whiting Volunteer fire departments along with fire crews from the Lakehurst, Joint Base, Forked River and Bayville fire departments who extinguished the fire.