
*News
Release* Date: May 1, 2009
Middlesex
County Prosecutor’s Office
Woman critically injured in Jamesburg collision
Middlesex
County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Jamesburg Police Chief Martin Horvath
today announced that a 17-year-old motorist was critically injured on April 30,
2009, when her car collided with another vehicle.
Karlee
N. Zelasko (DOB 6/21/91) of Jamesburg remained in critical condition at Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick following the crash at 5:48
p.m. on Buckelew Avenue in Jamesburg.
A
preliminary investigation determined that Zelasko, who was driving a 1993
Saturn, pulled out of a driveway and made a left turn onto Buckelew Avenue,
crossing into the path of a 2002 Jeep that was being driven southbound by Gerald
J. Nunziato Jr., (DOB 6/18/50) of Freehold.
Nunziato
subsequently was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He also was
charged with having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. No criminal
charges have been filed.
Anyone
with information on the collision is asked to call Sgt. Louis Ceras of the
Jamesburg Police Department at (732) 521-0011, or Investigator Sean O’Lone of
the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3315.
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O'Neill, public information officer, at (732) 745-3437.