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Head-on Crash Injures Four, Route 47 Closed Four Hours

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By Erin Ledwon

DENNISVILLE – Woodbine Station troopers were dispatched to a report of a two-car motor vehicle crash Nov. 10 at 8:55 a.m. on Route 47 at milepost 19.5.
Trooper Ryan Fontenelli said a box truck, driven by Paul Seirrotto, 25, of Philadelphia, was traveling southbound when it crossed the double yellow line and struck a Chevy Silverado, driven by Phillip Robeson, Jr., 62, of Woodbine, going northbound. Both vehicles went into the trees off the side of the northbound lane.
There were multiple entrapments reported. According to Fontenelli, it took about 45 minutes to free Robeson, and about an hour and 15 minutes to free Seirrotto and two passengers of the box truck, John Andress, 45, and John Creevey, 22, also of Philadelphia.
All were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injures.
Belleplain, Dennis Township, Ocean View, Leesburg, and Goshen fire departments responded to the scene, along with Belleplain Emergency Corps. and the state Department of Transportation.
New Jersey State Police Fatal Accident Investigation Unit and Crime Scene Investigation Unit assisted with the investigation. 
The road was reopened around 1 p.m.
The cause of the crash was “due to driver inattention,” said Fontenelli.  

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