Jersey City,NJ : Beloved Saddle Brook teen killed in car crash on December, Sunday 3rd 2017

A Saddle Brook teenager died in a single-car crash in South Brunswick Sunday night, police said.

The girl was driving a 2012 Honda Pilot eastbound on Fresh Ponds Road near Selma Drive when she left the roadway at a curve and crashed into a tree, South Brunswick police said in a statement.

Police and members of the Monmouth Junction Fire Department responded to the crash at 6:31 p.m. Firefighters were able to remove the teenager from the vehicle after 30 minutes, police said. She was then taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she died at 6 a.m. Monday, police said.

No passengers were in the vehicle, police said.

South Brunswick police did not identify the driver.

Saddle Brook police Chief Robert Kugler said the victim was 16-year-old Brooke Costanzo, a junior at Saddle Brook High School.

"We express our deepest sympathies and prayers to the family and will do whatever we can as a community to support and comfort them at this most tragic time," Kugler said in an email.

The school will hold a candlelight vigil in the parking lot on Mayhill Street from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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Beloved Saddle Brook teen killed in car crash