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December 4, 2006

E. Greenwich man dies in Route 4 crash

NORTH KINGSTOWN -- An East Greenwich man died today after the station wagon he was driving slammed into a pick-up truck sitting in the breakdown lane on Route 4 north.

The 49-year-old driver, Jeffrey P. Carden, of 53 Nichols Lane, East Greenwich, was pronounced dead at Kent Hospital in Warwick.

The police said George Ainsworth pulled his 2004 Ford pick-up truck into the breakdown lane about a quarter mile north of West Allentown Road at 9:57 a.m. so he could make a cell phone call.

Witnesses said a 1995 Taurus station wagon was being driven erratically on Route 4 north just before it smashed into the left rear of Ainsworth’s truck, Lt. Carlton Aruda said. The wagon continued about 30 feet, eventually stopping down a small embankment on the east side of the highway.

-- Journal staff writer Katie Mulvaney

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