October 13 Evening News
NEW 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTED A CAR CRASHED INTO THE SIDE OF A MCDONALD’S IN ENGLISHTOWN ON MONDAY MORNING WHICH PROMOTED THE RESTAURANT TO CLOSE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. THE VEHICLE CRASHED INTO THE SECTION OF THE BUILDING ON ROUTE 9 WHERE CURBSIDE CUSTOMERS USUALLY PICK UP ORDERS. THE FULL FRONT OF THE VEHICLES WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE BUILDING. THE CRASH CAUSED THE RESTAURANT TO BE EVACUATED SHORTLY AFTER. A MANAGER ONSITE TOLD NEWS 12 THAT NO ONE WAS HURT DESPITE THE DAMAGE. THE MANAGER ALSO SAID THE RESTAURANT WILL REMAIN CLOSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY AS CREWS WORK TO CLEAR THE SCENE AND ASSESS THE DAMAGE.
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTED THAT ONE NEW JERSEY TOWN IS GETTING A TASTE OF SOUTH BEACH AS THE FILMING FOR THE UPCOMING “MIAMI VICE ‘85’ BRINGS A RETRO MIAMI LOOK TO WAYNE. AT THE PREAKESS SHOPPING CENTER, PALM TREES WERE SPOTTED AND VEHICLES WERE TRANSFORMED TO REFLECT THE MOVIE’S 1980s SETTING. THE PRODUCTION RECENTLY GAVE THE AUDIENCES THEIR FIRST LOOK AT THE FILM WHICH STARS NEW JERSEY NATIVE MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND AUSTIN BUTLER. JORDAN, ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST ACTOR, PLAYS RICARDO TUBBS ALSO KNOWN AS TUBBS, WHILE BUTLER STARS AS JAMES CROCKETT ALSO KNOWN AS SONNY. THE FILM RECAPTURES THE ICONIC CRIME DRAMA BRINGING THE WORLD OF MIAMI’S UNDERCOVER DETECTIVES TO THE BIG SCREEN, WITH WAYNE SERVING AS ONE OF ITS FILM LOCATIONS.
NJ.COM REPORTED THAT A GEORGIA MAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED ON I-78 IN NEWARK THURSDAY MORNING. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, THEY RESPONDED TO A CRASH AT 9:43 AM. 54-YEAR-OLD TONY GILLIAM (GIL-EE-UHM) OF JONESBORO, GEORGIA WAS DRIVING HIS RAM PICKUP TRUCK WHEN HE PULLED OVER ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER AND EXITED HIS TRUCK. A HONDA VEHICLE THEN VEERED OFF THE ROADWAY AND STRUCK GILLIAM. OFFICIALS SAY GILLIAM SUCCUMBED TO HIS INJURIES. NOBODY ELSE WAS INJURED, AND THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED THAT A MAN DIED AFTER FALLING FROM A ROLLER COASTER IN SIX FLAGS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. ON OCTOBER 12TH, 42-YEAR-OLD HASSAN JIHAD IBN KARIEM, DIED AFTER BEING EJECTED FROM HIS SEAT ON THE GOLIATH ROLLER COASTER IN SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA. HE STRUCKED AND INJURED OTHER PATRONS ON THE COASTER AS HE FELL. ACCORDING TO THE COBB COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY FOUND KARIEM "UNRESPONSIVE AND NOT BREATHING”. THE COMPANY MADE A STATEMENT SAYING THEY WOULD TEMPORARILY CLOSE SIMILAR RIDES AS PRECAUTION. THE RIDES THAT WILL BE CLOSING INCLUDE THE RAGING BULL IN ILLINOIS; NITRO IN NEW JERSEY, GOLIATH IN CALIFORNIA; LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH IN CANADA; FURY 325 AND THUNDER STRIKER IN NORTH CAROLINA; AND ORION AND DIAMONDBACK IN OHIO.