UPPER FREEHOLD — An Upper Freehold resident was killed Monday in a head-on collision on Sharon Station Road by the Cream Ridge Golf Course, State Police said Tuesday.

   State Police said Christine M. Squires, 44, of Route 537, was traveling south on the road, also known as Route 539, toward Route 524 when her Pontiac Grand Prix collided with a Mack dual-axle pesticide truck driven by Charles Hwilka, 57, of Burlington. The accident occurred at 9:54 a.m.

   The pesticide truck overturned, police said, and Ms. Squires was trapped in her car until removed by the fire personnel who responded to the accident. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

   The Hope Fire Co., Allentown First Aid Squad and paramedics from MONOC responded to the scene, police said.

   Mr. Hwilka was taken Monday to the Capital Health System Fuld Campus, in Trenton, with complaints of pain, police said. A hospital representative said Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Hwilka had been treated and released.

   No charges had been filed, and the accident remained under investigation. State Police were asking anyone who witnessed the accident to contact Trooper J. Sembler at 609-584-5015.

 

From the Asbury Park Press:

June 22, 2009   Plumsted woman killed in Upper Freehold crash By MICHELLE SAHN STAFF WRITER A Plumsted woman died Monday morning after the car she was driving collided head-on with a Mack truck, State Police said. Christine M. Squires, 44, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Sharon Station Road, near County Road 526, State Police said. Around 9:55 a.m., Squires was driving a 2002 Grand Prix south on Sharon Station Road, and the 1989 two-axle Mack truck, operated by Charles Hwilka, 57, of Burlington, was traveling north on that road when the collision occurred about 9:55 a.m., said Trooper Joseph Sembler. Squires was trapped in the car, and the truck, which was hauling fertilizer, overturned, Sembler said. Hwilka was taken to the Helene Fuld campus of Capital Health hospital in Trenton, with complaints of pain, State Police said. The road was closed for about an hour and a half. Responding to the scene were the Hope Fire Co., Allentown First Aid Squad, MONOC paramedics and state troopers from the Hamilton Station. The accident remains under investigation. Anyone who witnessed the crash or has any information about it is asked to call Sembler at (609) 584-5015.