TOMS RIVER: On Monday January 4th, 2021 at approximately 5:50 PM police were dispatched to the intersection of Fischer Blvd and Shore Blvd for reports of a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian. Frank Sblendorio, 66 of Berkeley, was traveling northbound on Fischer Blvd. approaching Shore Blvd when he stated that a pedestrian “appeared out of nowhere” and he was subsequently struck by Mr. Sblendorio’s vehicle. The pedestrian is identified as Michael Marsh, 39 of Brick.
Michael McClellan, 40 of Belmar, was traveling northbound on Fischer Blvd. when he noticed the struck pedestrian lying in the roadway. In an attempt to avoid striking the pedestrian, he veered to the right side of the roadway, striking the curb and ultimately left the roadway coming to a rest on the northeast corner of Fischer and Shore Blvd.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Michael Marsh had attempted to cross Fischer Blvd from west to east on Shore Blvd against the crosswalk signal, causing the driver to strike him, and subsequently causing the second vehicle to strike the curb and continue off the roadway. Mr. Marsh was transported to Jersey Shore Medical University via ambulance for injuries sustained in the accident.
There was no indication of impairment on either of the drivers or the pedestrian. There are no charges at this time. The accident is being investigated by Toms River Police Officer Dan Herr.
*OCSN covered this story as it happened, that Monday evening. We reached out for a press release from Toms River Police Department as one page reader was adamant that THIS particular accident never happened. Heather- you can mail us our $50 whenever you can, thanks!
Didn’t you guys report an accident on Fischer a few day ago? My father rented a house for a year right on Fischer ages ago. Man things haven’t changed how people drive on that road.
Andrew Schwartz
This is the Monday night crash- just with the police report.
Ocean County Scanner News hope you get paid lol.
James Metzler
Heather deleted everything from the original post- but we remember. ????
Lynn Blackshaw this is what I called about.
Shari Lynn Merola Did u see this happen
Can u pm me important
Robin Lomboy no sorry. My family lives over there and they sometimes walk to Wawa so I had called to check on them.
Shari Lynn Merola ok ty
I thought u seen it happen
Hes my roommate n not in good shape ty
Robin Lomboy sorry to hear that
Shari Lynn Merola ty
Probably have to waste more of my tax dollars to have training how to cross roads & not go against the signal ( controlled intersection)
Hope you can collect that $50.00.
It wasn’t the guy in the electric scooter, was it? He crosses and you never see him he needs a tall orange flag or that thing. Just saying
Rt 9 should become Rt “NO”…….you can not fix or make this road safe, especially in the Lakewood area; where it is becoming a “parking lot”
unfortunately, it happens more than people admit .. female companion abusing the male .. guys are ashamed to admit and 9 of10 times pd assumes th male is being abusive no matter what the case .. it also reduces the affect of real abuse
Mike Marsh