New Jersey crash sends vehicle careening into front of home

ByEyewitness News WABC logo
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Cars crash, one careens into Newark home
One of the vehicles may have been stolen. The driver ran from the scene.

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Two cars collided in New Jersey early Tuesday, sending one of the vehicles careening into the front of a home.

The vehicles crashed on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark around 5:30 a.m.

One of the vehicles actually jumped the curb onto the sidewalk before crashing into the front of a home.

Police say one of the drivers, believed to be in a stolen vehicle, fled the crash on foot.

A transformer also came crashing down into the street.

The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.

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