Driver dies in one-vehicle crash on Route 38 in Cherry Hill
CHERRY HILL – A motorist died and a passenger was injured in a predawn crash on Route 38 on Sunday.
Cherry Hill police said the accident, which occurred shortly before 4:10 a.m., closed the westbound highway for several hours between Church and Mill roads.
A witness reported the victims' vehicle was cut in half .
"Oh my God! Prayers for everybody, please," Dwayne Davis of Camden said in a video recorded at the scene and posted to his Facebook page.
"A Cherry Hill police officer had to calm me down," Davis said in a Facebook post.
Davis, who came upon the crash scene after visiting a Wawa, said the emotional impact made it difficult for him to sleep afterwards.
"I just remembered a firefighter saying, "We got one breathing," Davis said in a Facebook post.
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Additional details, including the driver's name, were not immediately available from authorities.
It was the second deadly accident in Camden County within a week.
A pedestrian was fatally struck Feb. 11 on East Holly Avenue in Haddon Township, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.
That crash occurred around 6:10 p.m.
The prosecutor’s office did not release the victim’s name and other details, citing an ongoing investigation.
Jim Walsh is a senior reporter for the Courier-Post, Burlington County Times and The Daily Journal. Email: Jwalsh@cpsj.com.
This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Police say crash closed Route 38 between Church and Mill roads
