Litigation over a New Jersey Turnpike collision that killed five people and seriously injured three others settled for $7.8 million on Feb. 14, in Olcese v. Thomas.

The accident occurred on April 25, 2009, near Exit 4 in Mount Laurel Township, when a tractor-trailer rear-ended a car, pushing it into a Jeep with three occupants. The car caught fire and all five occupants died: 72-year-old driver Jeanette Urbano, and her 74-year-old husband, Salvatore, both of Passaic, and Jeanette’s three siblings in the back seat, Anna, Francis and Rose Kane, all of Kearny and respectively aged 76, 78 and 75.

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