Attorney General’s Office Investigating Fatal Crash in Woodbridge, N.J.

TRENTON — The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) is investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred on July 6, 2025, in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The driver of a motorized scooter (or “moped”) died in the incident. His identity is not being released at this time.

According to the preliminary investigation, at approximately 12:05 a.m., three individuals were operating motorized scooters in the area of State Street and High Street in Perth Amboy when a lieutenant from the Perth Amboy Police Department attempted to conduct a motor vehicle stop of the group. The lieutenant activated his overhead lights and siren. Two of the three scooter riders continued driving and left the scene. At first, the third scooter decelerated and pulled over on the shoulder of State Street, before accelerating and driving away at a high speed northbound.

The lieutenant followed the motorized scooter until the vehicles crossed the border into Woodbridge Township, at which point the lieutenant deactivated his lights and sirens and made a U-turn and returned to Perth Amboy. Shortly thereafter and about a quarter mile north on State Street, between Arbor Street and Ferry Street, Woodbridge police officers responded to a 911 call about a motor vehicle crash. Responding officers found the third scooter rider in the road with the vehicle some distance away. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation is ongoing and no further information is being released at this time.

A 2019 law, N.J.S.A. 52:17B-107(a)(2), requires the Attorney General’s Office to conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody. It requires that all such investigations be presented to a grand jury to determine if the evidence supports the return of an indictment against the officer or officers involved.

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