NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Former state Assemblymember Alberto Coutinho died in a crash in Newark, according to officials. He was 56.
The two-vehicle crash happened Sunday before 8 a.m. on McCarter Highway and South Street, according to Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II. Coutinho was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead.
The driver of the other vehicle was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. More information about what led to the crash was not immediately available…