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Multi-Vehicle Crash Results in Fist Fight Near Newark North Ward Firehouse

Newark

Firefighters in Newark's North Ward assisted in breaking up a fight involving occupants of a multi-car crash that occurred in the city's North Ward Saturday night.

Police were requested to the firehouse located at 714 Mount Prospect Street where as many as three vehicles were involved in a collision just before 11 p.m.

According to preliminary reports, occupants exited the vehicles and began to attack each other physically.

Police arrived at the scene and requested EMS for two patients who suffered non-life threatening injuries. It is not immediately clear of the victims suffered their injuries during the crash or while engaged in the physical confrontation at this time.

The official cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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