Flemington, NJ : Connecticut woman killed in Sunday's I-78 accident on Monday, August 29, 2016

A 27-year-old woman from Connecticut was killed in a four-vehicle accident on Interstate 78 on Sunday afternoon, State Police Sgt. Jeff Flynn confirmed Monday.

Ekaterina Cherynkh, of Bridgeport, Conn. was pronounced dead at the scene of the 1:26 p.m. accident. The other rear-seat passenger, a 31-year-old Matawan man, was seriously hurt.

The crash was one of two on Interstate 78 in Hunterdon County on Sunday, and the seventh fatal accident this year on a 30-mile stretch of the expressway from the Pennsylvania border to the Interstate 287 interchange in Somerset County.

Traffic was tied up on Interstates 78 and 287, as well as on Routes 22 and 31, in Central Jersey for much of the day, with an additional incident, a car carrier fire on Interstate 287 in Bernards, adding to the delays.

The fatal accident began when a Land Rover traveling east near milepost 23 near the borders of Clinton and Readington townships ran off the left side of the road and into a wooden embankment before going airborne and striking two westbound vehicles, Flynn said.
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Connecticut woman killed in Sunday's I-78 accident