SHIP BOTTOM — A 60-year-old Pennsylvania man died Saturday morning after driving his sedan faster than 100 mph and crashing into two vehicles stopped at a red light, police said.
A man from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, whose identity has not been released, was driving erratically in a black Toyota down Route 72 toward Long Beach Island about 6 a.m., police said in a news release.
Police from another jurisdiction did not pursue the Toyota, but followed from a safe distance.
As the driver turned and traveled south on Long Beach Boulevard, he crashed into a Ford pickup and a garbage truck stopped at a red light at the intersection of 11th Street and Long Beach Boulevard.
The driver of the Toyota was rushed to Southern Ocean Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Traffic was shut down for nearly five hours on Long Beach Boulevard from Ninth Street to 12th Street.
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The accident was still under investigation.
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