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Jun 20, 2007 9:58 am US/Eastern
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Turtle Crossing Leads To NJ Parkway Crash
ATLANTIC CITY (AP) ―
Why did the turtle cross the road? We'll never know, but it sure caused one heck of an accident.
A woman who swerved to avoid hitting the amphibian as it crawled across the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway Tuesday afternoon lost control of her car, crashed through a guardrail and tumbled down an embankment before the car flipped over onto its roof.
Saranne Goldinger, 65, of Cape May, was wearing a seat belt and was not critically injured, State Police said. Her car, however, was heavily damaged.
The turtle fared even worse. A vehicle that had been driving behind Goldinger flattened the critter.
"All of that for nothing," Trooper Scott Farkas told The Press of Atlantic City for Wednesday's newspapers.
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