Several years ago, two policemen in southern New Jersey were seriously
injured when they were hit by  a limousine driver who had fallen
asleep. Where? when ? what were the cops names ? P.S> The cops were
testing a drunk driver at the time they were hit

Hi Morski75,

There is little information about this accident available on the
Internet but I was able to find a reference to it in the Philadelphia
Inquirer's archives (Philadelphia is less than 75 miles from the
accident area). The same Associated Press story used by the Inquirer
also ran in The Record, a northern New Jersey newspaper.

The accident you inquired about happened at approximately 4:00 am on
the Garden State Parkway near Forked River, NJ. Troopers James Kurnel
and Michael Finetti  had stopped to wake up Robert Bernier who was
sleeping in his van when they were hit by the limousine which had
veered off the road.

There is some additional information available using a paid archive
query via the links below, but I believe the information above (where,
when, and cops names) should satisfy your question.

Http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=list&p_topdoc=11

Http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_widesearch=yes&p_multi=AC&p_multi=BE&p_product=NewsLibrary&p_theme=newslibrary&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0="james%20AND%20kurnel"%20AND%20new%20AND%20jersey&s_dispstring="james%20kurnel"%20new%20jersey%20AND%20date(01/01/1999%20to%2003/07/1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=01/01/1999%20to%2003/07/1
99&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no

Relevant Google search was: newark, new jersey newspaper archives

Thanks for your question,
ericynot-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by morski75-ga on 08 Oct 2002 08:10 PDT

thank you very much for your quick response...just one question (part
of my original ??) WHEN did this happen?

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Clarification of Answer by ericynot-ga on 08 Oct 2002 12:06 PDT

Sorry about that, morski75 - thought I had included the date in my
answer. The accident happened at 4:00 a.m. on January 25, 1999.

Further clarification on the links I provided - the first is to the
Philadelphia Inquirer archives. You'll need to enter something like
"limousine accident new jersey" into the newspaper's archive search
field (and specify dates encompassing 1/25/99) to see the article. I
gave you the direct reference to the article with my original answer,
but when I went to look at it today, it had expired, so this is a
safer route:

Http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/archives/

The second reference is to The Record (New Jersey):

Http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_widesearch=yes&p_multi=AC&p_multi=BE&p_product=NewsLibrary&p_theme=newslibrary&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0="james%20AND%20kurnel"%20AND%20new%20AND%20jersey&s_dispstring="james%20kurnel"%20new%20jersey%20AND%20date(01/01/1999%20to%2003/07/1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=01/01/1999%20to%2003/07/1
99&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no