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Clyde Bynum Jr.

December 13, 2002 · Wantage, Sussex County

Details as recorded

Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]

Name as recorded
Clyde Bynum Jr.
Age as recorded
49
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
Race unspecified
Date of the injury resulting in death
December 13, 2002
Location as recorded
Wantage, Sussex County888 NJ-23 Wantage NJ 07461 Sussex
Highest level of force as recorded
Vehicle

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Wantage, Sussex County

The marked point is the dataset's own geocoded location for this record, as recorded. Every other New Jersey record in the dataset is shown in gray. A point on a map is where a death was recorded, not a finding about anyone.

Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Wallkill Police Department, Middletown Township Police Department, New York State Police

An agency appears here because it appears in the record's as-reported agency field, nothing more. Its presence is not a claim of fault or responsibility.

The source's account

Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.

Police pursued a stolen car for more than 30 miles before it crashed, killing Clyde Bynum Jr. and Danielle Padilla. The driver, Marcus Padilla, 21, died Dec. 17.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_NxlEtVjx9_5DUZ13qLKj6VUT6HSxVS2tdTrUfY-N-o/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 22 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2002, and one of 9 it holds for Sussex County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.

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Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Clyde Bynum Jr. died on December 13, 2002 in Wantage, Sussex County, with "Vehicle" as the highest level of force. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset of deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind; a record is not a finding of fault or misconduct.

Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?

The record's agency field reads "Wallkill Police Department, Middletown Township Police Department, New York State Police". Presence in that field means the agency appears in the record as reported, nothing more; it is not a claim of fault or responsibility by any officer or agency.

Where did this happen?

The record places the death in Wantage, Sussex County, on December 13, 2002. The address as recorded is 888 NJ-23 Wantage NJ 07461 Sussex.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 28785. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩