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Front PageOctober 4, 2006 


Amboy Avenue site of second fatal in 2 weeks
Motorcyclist dies when his Harley-Davidson collides with car
BY KATHY CHANG
Staff Writer

WOODBRIDGE - Police are investigating a motorcycle crash that left a 38-year-old township man dead last week.

Scott Turk, who worked as a barber at Hollywood Barbers II shop on Fulton Street for the past 10 years, was traveling southbound on Amboy Avenue around 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 26, when his 1989 Harley-Davidson collided with a 2006 Dodge Magnum, which was coming out of Grenville Street and turning left to go north on Route 35, police said.

Turk was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m., police said.

Police cordoned off three blocks of Amboy Avenue for three hours.

A dozen people crowded behind the yellow police tape, watching police investigate the scene.

As they watched, a man pulled up and parked his Harley-Davidson at the yellow police tape, jumped off his bike and walked to where the police were, a block further down.

It was 9:50 p.m.

When the man saw the Turk's body in the middle of the intersection, he cried out "Oh no!" and sat down in the street.

He was consoled by police for a few minutes and led back to his motorcycle.

He sat on his bike for five minutes, then said "I'm riding."

Some people in the crowd told him to be careful. Witnesses said the man was Turk's best friend.

The accident was the second fatal crash on Amboy Avenue in two weeks.

Two Woodbridge High School students Richard Ryan Dzyak, 17, Hopelawn, and Tony Carlos Teijeiro, 16, were pronounced dead at 7:41 p.m. on Sept. 12, when their 2006 Chrysler 300 M sideswiped a 1998 Hyundai and careened into a Jeep Wrangler, police said.

Nancy J. Potter, 42, who was a passenger in the Jeep Wrangler, was also killed.

Lt. Thomas Genarelli said that accidents are common an Amboy Avenue.

"This is not uncommon," he said. "However, the No. 1 or 2 hotspot for accidents in the township would be the ramp off Green Street to get to the Woodbridge Center mall."

Genarelli said it was unlikely charges would be filed against the driver of the Dodge, but added that the investigation is still ongoing.

Turk was a member of BPOE Elks Lodge 2116 and American Legion Post 87, both in Woodbridge.

Turk is survived by his fiancée, Tina Webber of Woodbridge; his mother, Sharon Bodnar of South Amboy; his father, Paul Turk and his wife, Margie, of Woodbridge; two brothers, Daniel and his wife, Debbie, of Colonia and Travis and his wife, Karen, of Fords; four sisters, Susan Einhorn of South Amboy, Crystal Crosby and her husband, Tom, of Waterbury, Conn., Margaret Toree and her husband, Jason, of Lanoka Harbor, and Jaime Turk of Woodbridge. He was known as "Uncle Scotty" to his 14 nieces and nephews.