2 dead after crashed Porsche ends up lodged in second floor of building
A speeding driver lost control of his red Porsche convertible and struck a median in New Jersey on Sunday — sending the car flying into the second floor of a commercial building and killing both himself and a passenger, cops said.
The driver, Braden DeMartin, 22, and his passenger, Daniel Foley, 23, were pronounced dead at the scene in Toms River, authorities said.
Police said DeMartin was driving at “a high rate of speed” at around 6:30 a.m. when the 2010 Porsche Boxster hit a center median, plowed into an embankment and “went airborne.”
The sports car flew at least 15 feet in the air before crashing into a real-estate office on the second floor of the brick building at Hooper and Beatrice avenues.
There were skid marks streaking across four lanes of traffic near the building, but police said there were no witnesses to the gravity-defying crash.
Nobody was inside the building at the time.
The mangled convertible remained lodged upside down partially inside the offices of Exit Realty for several hours as a crowd of stunned onlookers gathered.
Authorities waited for several hours to make sure the building was structurally sound before going inside to inspect the damage.
Firefighters finally removed the vehicle from the building Sunday afternoon.
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer visited the scene.
A worker in the building, which also houses a drug- and alcohol-counseling office, declined to comment on Sunday.
