LT1 Camaro, Fatal Car Accident on the GSP

[Jersey Mike]

Heard about this over the weekend & decided to look it up. Rumor is the red 1993-1997 Camaro broke down in the center lane of the Parkway. Both people in the Camaro perished from the impact of the collision. The State released the victims' names yesterday. RIP.

http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf...e_parkway.html
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf...way_crash.html

Originally Posted by NJ.com

ABERDEEN -- Police have identified the two people killed in a crash on the Garden State Parkway Saturday afternoon.

Two people were killed in a crash on the Garden State Parkway southbound on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Kyia Fredericks, 25, of Brick, and Rene Munoz, 29, of Toms River, were in a Chevrolet Camaro when it stopped in the center lane of the southbound express lanes of the Parkway around 3:30 p.m., near milepost 120.9 in Aberdeen, Sgt. Jeff Flynn, a New Jersey State Police spokesman, said.

The Camaro was then struck by a GMC Yukon, Flynn said. The Yukon overturned as a result of the collision.

Fredericks and Munoz were both pronounced dead at the scene, Flynn said.

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[sweetbmxrider]

Heard about it this morning, sad stuff....

[NJ Torque]

Wow.. passed by it Saturday leaving work

[unstable bob gable]

God bless them. What a shame.

[qwikz28]

RIP, that's terrible. Bless their families.

[6spdg37s]

i seen this on the news sat night, very sad, RIP, and im not sure if it was an LT1 or a 6cyl hard to tell from the pics obviously...

I wonder why they stopped in the middle lane cause most of the time when u break down u dont dead stop it still coasts...

[LS1ow]

Originally Posted by 6spdg37s

i seen this on the news sat night, very sad, RIP, and im not sure if it was an LT1 or a 6cyl hard to tell from the pics obviously...

I wonder why they stopped in the middle lane cause most of the time when u break down u dont dead stop it still coasts...

My guess is driver not being to situationally aware. I see people making lefts on lights on highways were not permitted, backing up on side of highway because missed exits, ect ect. Im sure we all see it.

Very sad none the less. I saw one of my facebook friends share the article, it was a close family friend of theres

[BonzoHansen]

Sad story. The girl driving probably just made a bad decision maybe she tried to restart it instead of rolling to the side of the road that by the time she realized she couldn't it was too late to do it. Sad

[6spdg37s]

I know I seen it on Fb too friends of friends type of thing.. i feel really bad for them and in general when I see things like this...

[diablo2424]

I was good friends with Kyia, the female driver of the car, and have been trying to figure out what generation Camaro Rene had since it happened. I only met Rene once at my best friends wedding last summer, so I didn't have a chance to see his car, also it was fairly new to him (he just bought it used only about a week or so prior to the accident), as I was told by some friends.

Thank you for helping identify the generation for me, and I do believe it was a V6, he wasn't a gearhead, so I wouldn't have expected him to have an LT1 model.


From what I heard, what happened was that something caused the car to stop running while they were in the middle lane of the express side of the GSP, Kyia was driving and began to panic (from what we've gathered) stopping the car in the middle of the parkway. At that point, they were trying to waive people around them with their arms out of the windows, but the Yukon, which was 2-3 cars behind them didn't see them stopped and hit them from behind. They both died at the scene and the driver of the Yukon, a 60 year old man from Howell, walked away, even after his truck flipping from the force.


R.I.P. Kyia and Rene, and prayers to all of our friends (esp. Matt, Kyia's boyfriend who had to work and couldn't make the trip to NYC with them) and their families.

[sweetbmxrider]

Wow, that is tough.....glad the board could help you.

[Jersey Mike]

Originally Posted by diablo2424

I was good friends with Kyia, the female driver of the car, and have been trying to figure out what generation Camaro Rene had since it happened. I only met Rene once at my best friends wedding last summer, so I didn't have a chance to see his car, also it was fairly new to him (he just bought it used only about a week or so prior to the accident), as I was told by some friends.

Thank you for helping identify the generation for me, and I do believe it was a V6, he wasn't a gearhead, so I wouldn't have expected him to have an LT1 model.


From what I heard, what happened was that something caused the car to stop running while they were in the middle lane of the express side of the GSP, Kyia was driving and began to panic (from what we've gathered) stopping the car in the middle of the parkway. At that point, they were trying to waive people around them with their arms out of the windows, but the Yukon, which was 2-3 cars behind them didn't see them stopped and hit them from behind. They both died at the scene and the driver of the Yukon, a 60 year old man from Howell, walked away, even after his truck flipping from the force.


R.I.P. Kyia and Rene, and prayers to all of our friends (esp. Matt, Kyia's boyfriend who had to work and couldn't make the trip to NYC with them) and their families.

Sorry for your loss. I visualized being in the car while reading through that and it was chilling.

[ted gerlach]

the owner of the tow company i work for has known the girl since she [ i think he said 5 years old ] and her dad work for him for years.