PA Victims In Rutherford NJ Route 3 Crash That Killed 5 People Sunday Night Identified

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ. (THECOUNT) — Michelle Toledo, 38, Irvina Gee, 20, Sheckylle Chain, 23, Ayana Navas, 16, and Noah Alexander Dejesus, 4, all of Allentown, Pennsylvania, have been identified as the victims in a two-vehicle crash Sunday night in Bergen County, New Jersey.

According to reports, five people were traveling in a Nissan Rogue on Route 3 near Route 17 in Rutherford, when the vehicle came into contact with a slow-moving front loader construction vehicle around 10:45 p.m. Sunday.

The driver of the front loader was not injured in the crash.

Four occupants of the vehicle died at the scene. The child was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2019 Census estimate, the county’s population was 932,202, an increase of 3.0% from the 2010 census, which in turn represented an increase of 20,998 from the 884,118 counted in the 2000 Census – Wikipedia.