MANCHESTER – Two Ocean County women suffered severe burns after crashing ATV’s which caught fire yesterday evening, police said.
Around 6:14 p.m., officers received a report of the incident that occurred in the area of Trenton Avenue in the Roosevelt City section of Whiting.
According to police, 20-year-old Nicole Rasmussen of Manchester and 20-year-old Victoria Labrecque of Toms River were riding their Polaris ATVs through the trails off of Roosevelt Boulevard and Trenton Avenue when the vehicle flipped over and caught on fire.
The two were able to walk away from the crash to a nearby residence for help. They both suffered severe burns to their heads, backs, arms and faces, police said. They were both treated at the scene by Manchester Township EMS and were flown out to St. Barnabas Medical Center Livingston Burn Center by Medivac for treatment of their injuries.
Authorities were notified that the vehicle fire was still active and members of the Whiting Volunteer Fire Department and NJ State Forest Fire Service arrived to extinguish the ATV fire and surrounding wooded area.
Assisting at the scene were EMT’s from the Manchester Township EMS, Paramedics from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Whiting Volunteer Fire Department, NJ State Forest Fire Service, Detectives from the Ocean County Sheriff’s CSI Unit and Priced Rite Towing.
The crash is being investigated by Sgt. Paul Bachovchin of the department’s Traffic Safety Unit.
