Woman dragged to her death after NJ driver mistook her for garbage bag: Officials

A woman was dragged to her death by a car in New Jersey after the driver thought she was a bag of garbage, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Police in Newark were called just before 7 p.m. Friday to the parking lot of the Extra Supermarket on Lyons Avenue in the Weequahic neighborhood after getting reports of a woman under a vehicle.

The driver told officers she was heading south on Sherman Avenue when she hit what she believed was a black garbage bag, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The woman behind the wheel continued on her way to the supermarket, where she went inside to buy something and returned to her car…

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