3 dead, 12 injured in crash with cow hauler

Three people died and a dozen were injured after a van crashed into a cattle trailer parked on the shoulder of a New Jersey highway, leaving the interstate strewn with dead cows, state police said on Sunday.

A man standing on the shoulder after his car struck the cattle trailer earlier and two van passengers died in the incident late Saturday on Interstate 287, New Jersey State Police said.

No charges had been filed in the incident as of Sunday morning, state police said.

Police said Troy Chase, 43, of Pittston, Maine, had stopped his truck on the right shoulder of the northbound lanes to repair a cattle trailer he was towing, when it was struck by a car driven by Ravi Naik, 23, of Hillsborough.

Naik exited the car and was standing on the shoulder when a passenger van carrying a dozen passengers struck the right guardrail, the trailer, the truck and Naik, before crossing the lanes and hitting the left guardrail, police said. police custody that triggered rioting and protests and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality.

Officer William Porter, 26, is the first of six officers scheduled for separate trials in Baltimore City Circuit Court for the death in April of Freddie Gray.

Trial will begin with jury selection. Judge Barry Williams last week ordered the identities of jurors to be shielded to keep them from facing outside pressure.

Gray, 25, died from a spinal injury suffered in the back of a police transport van after he was taken into custody. Porter is accused of ignoring Gray’s requests for medical aid and not putting a seatbelt on him, even though he was shackled and handcuffed.

Porter faces charges of second-degree assault, manslaughter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. If convicted on all counts he could face more than 25 years in prison. including five years with the St. Clair Police Department, died from gunshot wounds, police said.