Arrest made in fatal Parkway crash in Woodbridge

WOODBRIDGE – A Sussex County man has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide for allegedly causing a two-car crash near Exit 129 North on the Garden State Parkway at 10:37 p.m. Thursday that killed two people.

Andrew Frazell, 26, of Newton, is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick on $300,00 bail, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police Col. Joseph R. Fuentes.

The names of the victims has not been released pending notification of next of kin.

Charges were filed after Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Investigator Jeffrey Temple and New Jersey State Police Detective Tom Holmes determined that Frazell was driving the wrong way on an entrance ramp at Exit 129 when he crashed his 2005 Jeep Liberty head-on into the victim’s vehicle at 10:58 p.m. Thursday.

The accident closed the Parkway from the Route 9 exit to the exit for the New Jersey Turnpike until 4:30 a.m. The crash involved a Honda Accord and a Jeep Liberty, State Trooper Jeff Flynn said.

The driver and the passenger of the Accord were trapped inside the car and pronounced dead at the scene at 11:07 p.m. The driver of the Jeep, later identified as Frazell, was taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy for treatment of minor injuries, Flynn said.

The investigation is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Investigator Jeffrey Temple at 732-745-3300 or New Jersey State Police Detective Tom Holmes at 732-441-4500, ext. 7417.

Staff Writer Everett Merrill: 908-243-6606; emerrill@mycentraljersey.com