High school track coach, wife identified as victims of N.J. crash

Police have identified the two people killed when their car crashed into a Harrison Township, New Jersey, home on Saturday night, sparking a fire.

Driver Thomas Hengel, 72, and his passenger, 61-year-old Lisa Hengel, both of Mullica Hill, were killed in the crash on Banff Drive in Mullica Hill, the Harrison Township Police Department said in a news release.

Thomas Hengel was a track and cross-country coach within the Clearview Regional School District, according to teachers in the district. Coach Hengel was inducted into the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2018, according to a social media post by the organization. He was known as a “legendary Clearview Regional boys and girls cross country and track coach” who also coached several other sports in the district for 94 combined seasons…

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