Remember NJ Transit Death Victim John Barker, 48, Killed By A Deadly Bus Driver Outbound on Shore Road, near the White Horse Pike June 17. 2022
Remember NJ Transit Death Victim John Barker, 48, Killed By A Deadly Bus Driver Outbound on Shore Road, near the White Horse Pike June 17. 2022 ABSECON — A Galloway Township man died after his car slammed into a New Jersey Transit bus bound for Lindenwold, Camden County, late Thursday afternoon. John Barker, 48, was driving a 2006 Mercedes-Benz sedan southbound on Shore Road, near the White Horse Pike, when the vehicle collided with the bus at the road’s intersection with Ohio Avenue around 5:30 p.m. The bus was on its way to Lindenwold from Atlantic City, NJ Transit spokesperson Jim Smith said Friday. The bus was headed northbound on Shore Road and attempted to make a left turn onto Ohio Avenue, beneath the city’s railroad viaduct, when Barker’s car crashed into it. The impact crushed the sedan’s front end and caused major damage to the bus’s right side. More than a dozen passengers and the bus driver were treated for injuries, police said. Authorities said Thursday evening that th