A heartbreaking crash in South Jersey is rocking one community after the crash takes the lives of a youth football coach and a young player.
A crash involving an SUV and a motorcycle leaves the driver of the motorcycle and a 9-year-old boy dead in Vineland.Hugs and heartache at the spot where a beloved youth football coach and a Pee Wee Football player were both killed at the entrance to the Joseph E. Romano Sports Complex.
Thursday night, Coach Ortiz was riding his motorcycle on Maple Avenue, near Becker Drive by the entrance to the sports complex, when he hit a Chevy Traverse, driven by 42-year-old Lauren Beisler, of Ocean View, in Cape May County, as she was making a turn into the complex, while driving Easton to his Pee Wee scrimmage.The impact killed both Easton, who was in the backseat and Coach Ortiz. Both died at the scene. Police say Lauren Beisler was not physically hurt in the crash.
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