At just around 3:30 AM, Saturday August 18, 2007, Cherry Hill Firefighters and EMTs were dispatched to the area of mile makrer 29 on the New Jersey Turnpike for a motor vehicle accident reportedly with people trapped inside a vehicle. The secondary report indicated an accident involving a car and a tractor trailer. Firefighters arrived on the scene and found a 15 passenger van that had struck a tractor trailer in the rear. Several passengers were walking around the scene, but the driver and front passenger of the van remained trapped with multiple injuries. Firefighters carefully removed the doors and mid posts on both sides of the vehicle with hydraulic rescue tools so the patients could be safely removed. Both were transported by ambulance to Cooper Trauma Center in Camden, along with one other passenger who experienced minor injuries. CHFD units were clear from the scene in approx. thirty-eight minutes. Runnemede Fire Dept. also assisted with the operation.
