1 Killed, 5 Injured In Fatal Chain-Reaction Wreck On Garden State Parkway In Cranford

A late-night chain-reaction crash on the Garden State Parkway in Cranford left one person dead and five others injured after a 19-year-old Hillside driver rear-ended a Kia, setting off a series of collisions involving multiple vehicles. The front-seat passenger in the at-fault Mercedes-Benz was killed when the car left the highway and struck two trees; the driver was seriously injured and hospitalized.