An 8-year-old girl and a 36-year-old man were killed in a two-car crash Sunday night in New Jersey, authorities said.
Sharfu Uddin, the driver of one vehicle, was identified as the deceased man, NJ.com reported. The 8-year-old girl was not identified. Two more people, a 26-year-old woman from Elizabeth, N.J., and a 29-year-old woman from Miami, were injured in the crash.
Cops said the Miami woman was driving a Hyundai Santa Fe northbound on Interstate 295 near Florence when she struck the right guardrail around 10:15 p.m., Patch reported. She then reentered the road and struck a Hyundai Tucson, which had Uddin, the Elizabeth woman and the girl inside, according to investigators.
Police said the vehicles then traveled together across the highway to the left and off the road, striking multiple trees, according to NJ.com. The surviving victims both suffered serious injuries, authorities said.
Cops have not publicly speculated on what caused the Miami woman to hit the guardrail at the beginning of the wreck. The crash outside Philadelphia was not the only deadly car collision in New Jersey on Sunday.
In the North Jersey town of Bethlehem, a hit-and-run driver struck a pickup truck on Interstate 78, sending it careening into a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the highway, police said.
The pickup truck driver, 78-year-old Alan Smith, was killed in the crash, NJ.com reported. A 78-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.