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Saturday, April 19, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJA Brooklyn man is dead after he landed in a New Jersey backyard in a skydiving accident.
The incident happened Sunday afternoon in Washington Township, in Gloucester County.
The 49-year-old victim, Arkady Shenker, was wearing a wing suit allows a skydiver to move forward while descending and is said to have been an experienced diver with more than 350 jumps.
He had just jumped with 15 others from a plane operated by a Monroe company called Freefall Adventures.
The cause of the fatal accident has not yet been determined, and it is unclear if the specialized suit opened properly.
Date:
Saturday, April 19, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJA woman was killed in a crash on Route 35 in Belmar early Sunday morning.
The victim's father stated that his 26-year-old daughter, Tiffany Soto, of Howell, died in the crash.
Witnesses say the car carrying the victim was coming down Eighth Avenue when it collided with another car. Soto's father says her boyfriend was driving at the time.
The car collided then with a pole, knocking it down, and flew into a parking lot at a marina. Soto's father says his daughter was ejected from the vehicle and ended up in the river. Others were hospitalized.