Baby dies after rescue from turnpike crash

CARTERET, NJ

Investigators say Denisse Delucca-Moncayo, 29, crashed into a concrete barrier at a toll booth on the /*New Jersey Turnpike*/ in /*Carteret*/ at 9:15 a.m. on Sunday

When Trooper /*Ryan Kauffman*/ saw an infant trapped inside he pulled out the baby, but she wasn't breathing.

Kauffman performed CPR and about ten minutes later he felt a pulse.

A three-month-old baby was rushed to intensive care at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick.

The baby died on Monday morning.

Her mother and grandmother suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash.

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