Two people seriously injured in Parkway accident

LAKEWOOD — The Garden State Parkway remains closed at milepost 87.5 southbound at the scene of a 4:30 p.m. accident involving three cars and a charter bus with 50 passengers onboard.Two persons, who were traveling in one of the vehicles, were seriously injured and were transported to the trauma center at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune by the state police South Star helicopter, according to Joe Orlando, a spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the parkway.Orlando said that no bus passengers on the bus heading to Atlantic city were reorted injured."Traffic delays are extraordinary at this point and overhead signs on the parkway are advising motorists to use Exit 98 to access Interstate 195 and then Route 9 southbound,'' he said at 6:50 p.m.The state police Fatal Accident Investigation Unit is on the scene, he said. The unit responds to all serious, as well as fatal, accidents, he said.
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