Preliminary findings indicate alcohol was a factor in the crash, police said.
A 19-year-old township man died Sunday after his car crashed into a tree on Pulaski Road in Readington Township, police report.Ryan W. Coleman, of the 500 block of Locust Road, was driving a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country when it veered off the road and crashed near the Glenmont Road intersection, police said.
Coleman was extricated from the car after the 11:15 p.m. crash and flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. He succumbed to his injuries shortly after arriving at the hospital, police said.
Preliminary findings indicate alcohol was a factor in the crash, police said.
The Readington Township Police Department, assisted by the Hunterdon County Fatal Accident Crash Team, is conducting an investigation.
The Whitehouse Rescue Squad, the Whitehouse Fire Co. and other emergency crews responded with police.