A 78-year-old man died less than 12 hours after he was seriously injured in a motor vehicle crash on Bound Brook Road, police said.
A 78-year-old man died Friday hours after he was seriously injured in a motor vehicle crash on Bound Brook Road in Middlesex, police said. MIDDLESEX -- A 78-year-old man died Friday, less than 12 hours after he was seriously injured in a motor vehicle crash on Bound Brook Road, police said.
Guillermo Torres-Saenz, of Middlesex, was turning left onto eastbound Bound Brook Road, also known as Route 28, from Second Street at 7:51 a.m. Friday when his 1998 Toyota was struck by a Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling west, borough police said in a news release.
Torres-Saenz was seriously injured in the crash and unresponsive when police arrived on the scene. He was removed from the vehicle and officers began performing CPR on him while awaiting transport to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, police said. Hours after being taken to the hospital, Torres-Saenz was pronounced dead at 6:09 a.m., police said.
The 20-year-old woman driving the Jeep was able to remove herself from the vehicle, police said. The woman, whose name has not yet been released, sustained only minor injuries, but she, too, was taken Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She was released from the hospital later that day.
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A third vehicle was also involved in the crash but it sustained only minor damage, police said. None of the occupants reported any injuries following the crash, police said.
No charges have been filed at this time, but the crash remains under investigation by the Middlesex Police Department's Serious Accident Investigation Unit and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, police said.
Bound Brook Road was closed between Third Street and South Lincoln Avenue for four-and-a-half hours while the scene of the crash was investigated.
Anyone with information about this crash can contact Detective Thomas Carroll with the Middlesex Police Department at 732-356-1900, ext. 339.
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