16-Year-Old Bloomfield Girl Killed in Car Crash
Christina Lembo was pronounced dead shortly after the Honda Civic she was a passenger in was involved in an accident with a Camaro Saturday night.
[Updated 5:15 p.m. Sunday] A 16-year-old Bloomfield High School soccer player died Saturday night in car crash that left four others injured. Christina Lembo was seated in the back of a 2007 Honda Civic when it was involved in a car crash with a 2000 Chevrolet Camaro at about 11:10 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Broughton Avenue and Walter Street in Bloomfield, according to a press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Lembo was transported to University Hospital in Newark, and was pronounced dead a short time later, the release said. “I heard, 'Bam!' Like a crunch. You heard glass breaking and people screaming,” said high school student Ashley Bieksha, 20, Sunday afternoon, who heard the accident happen from her home…
BobbyK
9:20 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
As a resident of Broughton Ave for the past 31 years and a retired sergeant from Newark PD, WITH DEEP REGRETS, I have been waiting for a tragedy of this dimension for years. I have written emails, spoke to my councilwoman, at that time, about how Broughton Ave is an open race track from Bay Ave to Watchung Ave. One afternoon during the summer, the councilwoman was standing in my driveway and … more ›