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Regina Rowland
August 23, 2013 · Hillside, Union County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Regina Rowland
- Age as recorded
- 45
- Gender as recorded
- Female
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- August 23, 2013
- Location as recorded
- Hillside, Union County138 US-22 Hillside NJ 07205 Union
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
The source geocoded this record's coordinates outside New Jersey, so no point is shown. The county as recorded is Union County.
Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Union 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)
What this site holds on the agencies named
Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.
- Union Township Police Department
Reported 425 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 4 major discipline records name officers at this agency.
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.
David Graham, 42, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving a stolen vehicle, killing passenger Regina Rowland upon crashing.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/08/passenger_killed_in_hillside_stolen_car_crash_identified_as_orange_woman.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2013, and one of 24 it holds for Union County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Regina Rowland died on August 23, 2013 in Hillside, Union 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 "Union 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 Hillside, Union County, on August 23, 2013. The address as recorded is 138 US-22 Hillside NJ 07205 Union.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 15091. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩