Larry Helwig, 72, of Bridgewater, has been identified as the person killed in the April 23, 2017, fatal accident involving a State Police troop car on Route 22 in Hunterdon County.
LEBANON - A 72-year-old Somerset County man has been identified as the person killed in Sunday's fatal accident involving a State Police troop car on Route 22.
Larry Helwig, 72, of Bridgewater, driving a GMC Envoy, was killed in the collision with a marked Ford Crown Victoria troop car at the intersection of westbound Route 22 and Cokesbury Road in Hunterdon County, State Police said on Monday afternoon. The accident happened at 7:57 a.m.; Helwig was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:35 a.m.
Trooper Emmanuel Gonzalo, 26, was heading west on Route 22 while responding to an accident on Interstate 78 in Union Township in Hunterdon County, police said.
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Jane Roxbury, 67, of Lebanon, a passenger in the Envoy, was flown to Morristown Medical Center where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Gonzalo was taken to Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and later released.
Gonzalo is a member of the State Police's Perryville Barracks, police said.
State Police said the accident remains under investigation.