HIGH BRIDGE – A crossing guard was struck and killed Wednesday by a car at the intersection of County Route 513 and Larson Avenue a block from High Bridge Elementary School.
Robert Bork, 75, a local resident, was struck by a car traveling southbound on Route 513 at about 12:10 p.m. as schools dismissed early the day before Thanksgiving, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office.
Bork was airlifted to Morristown Medical Center, where he later died of his injuries.
Bork had been a police guard for six years. He previously worked with the Marine Law Enforcement Bureau of the State Police and the New Jersey State Park Police, according to his Linkedin profile.
Responding to the incident were the High Bridge Police Department, High Bridge Fire Department, Annandale Fire Department, South Branch Emergency Services, and members of the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s Forensic Analysis Collision Team (FACT)
The accident remains under investigation by members of the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s FACT and the High Bridge Police Department.
Officials have not released the name of the driver whose car hit Bork.
No other damage was done by the Prosecutor’s Office.
No summons has been issued at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the High Bridge Police Department at 908-638-6500 or the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office at 908-788-1129.
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