On January 10th, 2020 at approximately 2121 hours, Officers were dispatched to the area of 600 Route 9 for a report of a vehicle that struck a pole. Upon arrival, officer’s observed the vehicle in the parking lot of CG Landscape Supply with a pole on top of it. Officers then made contact with the operator (Michael Longo 37 of Cream Ridge NJ ) who was pinned under the steering wheel. Officers also made contact with the passenger (Tabitha Gudehus 38 of Toms River NJ ) in the back seat of the vehicle.
It should be noted that due to damage sustained to the driver’s side door, Bayville Volunteer Fire Company had to extract him from the vehicle. Berkeley Township First Aid and Monoc Medics were on scene and evaluated Longo and Gudehus for injuries once out of the vehicle. Longo was transported to Jersey Shore Medical Center due to injuries sustained to his left leg and Gudehus was transported to Community Medical Center with complaints of pain in her left ankle.
Preliminary Investigation indicates that Longo’s vehicle was traveling southbound on Route 9 when it crossed the northbound lane and struck A utility pole in front of Mike’s Foreign Car Repair. Two vehicle’s in the parking lot of Mike’s Foreign Car Repair also sustained damage. The vehicle then continued across both Lanes of Route 9 and struck a Verizon Pole in the parking lot of CG Landscape Supply. Traffic Safety Officer W. Black responded to the scene and conducted the crash investigation.
Further investigation indicTed that Longo was operating the vehicle while under the influence. Further, suspect heroin was located within the vehicle. Longo was being issued summonses for Driving While Intoxicated, Reckless Driving, Careless Driving, CDS in a motor vehicle, and failure to maintain lane. Criminal charges are pending.
Any witnesses are encouraged to contact Berkeley Township Police Department Traffic Safety Office at 732-341-1132 x125 . Tips can be anonymous. Verizon and JCP&L both responded to the scene in reference to the incident. Both lanes of Route 9 were closed between Hickory Lane and Station Road.
Let’s pray for the junkie
Joe Pro maybe he will finally realize he needs help. Let me guess, you’re probably drinking and think you’re better than him… joke
Shawn Bowers no I quit drinking 9 years ago…I’m just hear waiting for the prayers for him and why am I negative he has the ” herion disease” can’t even drive thru my town without worrying about some junkie nodding off and killing someone…….
Sounds to me like you both need a program.
Joe Pro congratulations on your sobriety… As for the junkie, nothing will change unless he decides to as you did.
Denise Falone Ferriolo if he don’t kill someone first
Joe Pro I’m curious. You say you quit drinking 9 years ago. So when you were drinking, ever get behind the wheel?
Diane Araneo not once✌️
Dave Frick no I’m sober and he’s nodding out on herion behind the wheel????????♂️
Allea N Marc Straniero
Brianna Reneé so crazy!! Thank God that Marc was paying attention to the road
Let him go with no charges. It’s a disease after all. They can’t help it. Even if they kill someone on the road…
Patrick Brennan its a choice
Nyte Wynd I guess you didn’t detect my sarcasm. I know it’s a choice 100%
yup. just like booze. oh wait. that’s an acceptable illness
Not a joke with the someone could have been killed and it’s usually number of the drunk driver or the driver high on whatever is the innocent person
y’AlL iZ jUsT hAtErS, i bEen lIviNg mY bEsT lIfE…
Gene Smith
Anthony Nieves not funny to joke around about a disease ???????? SIKE
Anthony Nieves brooo only you would pop this out there haha
Loser…could have killed innocent people…SMH
Jill Matusiewicz Gohr but could have killed terrible and not innocent people too. There’s no way of saying for sure the quality of human that wasn’t killed here.
Bear Brian what a stupid comment
Laura..I thought it was just me who found that comment stupid! SMH
Marx Jordan Benzon
Honestly if you wanna do drugs stay your ass at home & do them. Why the hell do these folks drug while driving. And then innocent ppl get killed. SMH
Arlene Isabelle well that’s actually because they’re always high as to not withdraw and usually they gotta drive to go get their shit and are typically in withdrawal by the time they get to their connect so they use the drug the second they get it which sure as shit is long before they finished driving back home or wherever they going. Withdrawals are very serious and you have to be strong minded confident and capable to get thru them and these people are typically none of those things so they continue to use to avoid going thru this process mostly. And so we all get to wonder if we’re gonna die on the road everyday
Kenneth Gregg family members been withdrawing for years…unless a person is taking out of the community, given a car, job, home, food, clothes and NEW”friends” the cycle keeps going…At this point family/friends had enough.
They need to have checkpoints every night due to these idiots driving while intoxicated
Tommy Di Biase I say that but you gotta get to that stupid governor we got the road a horrible people draw than all messed up on God knows what they dissuade for innocent people get killed before they even attempt to try to do something or make it look like they are and actually they don’t care and the poor families that got a suffered a loss of an innocent person Buddha somebody high on heroin it’s horrible
‘Issued a summons.’
Drunk drivers aren’t ‘issued a summons.’ Why should junkies be given a ticket instead of being locked up??
Nouvelle Mifsud He was taken to the hospital due to injuries to his leg.
After the hospital stay – he should be locked up.
you think drunk drivers go to jail? ????????
Let’s not mention closing down route 9 for a day!!!
And all the money and man-hours to fix the damage✌️
fuckin piece of shit made everyone have to detour down eugene furey for the day i was big madd ????⚠️
If you’re going to be a scumbag junkie, stay home and hurt yourself. Don’t go out putting innocent lives in danger for your dumb ass choice to get high
And the pos lived
Keep narcaning these piece of shit wastes of life let them kill or hurt more I ice the people
Pos
Thank god these scumbags were the only car involved and they didn’t kill anyone else in the process!
It’s not safe to drive around here anymore with all the drug problems
Dont think they should ever recive narcan.
Asshole
Idiots!!! Glad they got hurt
Kelly Daletto
You people do realize that more people are driving drunk than this one person on drugs… and half of you hypocrites have driven drunk in your lifetime…
And we should all feel sorry for addicts?
Uber?
POS