PARSIPPANY — Jonathan Santiago, 27, was fatally struck after exiting his 2014 Honda Accord on Interstate 80 near mile marker 46.8. On Sunday morning, around 3:24 am, the pedestrian accident occurred, which involved Santiago from West Lawn, Pennsylvania who slammed into a guardrail and exited his vehicle to examine the damage.
Once he came out of his vehicle a 2014 Nissan Pathfinder driven by a 59-year-old Mayer Dudinsky from Hackettstown fatally struck the victim. The SUV driver and his 14-year-old passenger sustained no injuries although the 15-year-old boy sitting in the back of the SUV incurred personal injuries and was treated at the Morristown Medical Center.