Critically-injured N.J. crash victim identified as 20-year-old woman

A 20-year-old woman critically injured after her car Saturday morning collided with a tractor trailer along Strykers Road in Lopatcong Township has been identified.

Township police said the accident happened at 8:07 a.m. as the woman, identified as Amanda Lazorchak of Phillipsburg, was driving a 2010 Kia Soul north near the Greenwich Township border and struck the back tires of a passing tractor trailer, driven south by 72-year-old Willem Postma, of Belvidere.

Lazorchak had to be extricated from the vehicle by the Stewartsville Fire Co. and Lopatcong Fire Dept., police said.

Lazorchak was treated by the Lopatcong Emergency Squad and paramedics by the Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township before being airlifted from Lopatcong Elementary School by New Jersey State Police-NorthStar to St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, where she remained listed in critical condition.

Postma was not injured, police said. Strykers Road remained closed between Route 57 and Route 519 for several hours as authorities investigated.

Also responding was Pohatcong Township Police, Greenwich Township Police, the Greenwich Township Emergency Squad, Harmony Township Volunteer Fire Co., Warren County Prosecutor’s Office Serious Collision Analysis Team and New Jersey State Police.

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