Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Nuwnah Laroche
May 6, 2015 · Secaucus, Hudson County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Nuwnah Laroche
- Age as recorded
- 34
- Gender as recorded
- Female
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- May 6, 2015
- Location as recorded
- Secaucus, Hudson CountyLincoln Tunnel XBL & New Jersey 495 Secaucus NJ 07094 Hudson
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
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: Washington Township Police Department
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.
Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
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.
State police officers in high speed pursuit crashes and creates accident where two pedestrians died.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/nj-turnpike-pedestrians-killed-police-car/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 31 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2015, and one of 34 it holds for Hudson County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Jason Champion (2015) May 6, 2015
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Nuwnah Laroche died on May 6, 2015 in Secaucus, Hudson 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 "Washington Township Police Department". 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 Secaucus, Hudson County, on May 6, 2015. The address as recorded is Lincoln Tunnel XBL & New Jersey 495 Secaucus NJ 07094 Hudson.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 12247. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩