Passenger Airlifted From Fiery Accident Site

A Hillsborough man was taken to the hospital Sunday and his passenger flown there after he crashed his car and it burst into flames.

Robert DiGiorgio, 25, of Hockenbury Road, was transported for treatment of injuries he suffered after the 1967 Ford Shelby he was driving on Chubb Way in Branchburg crashed and caught on fire, according to a news release from county Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano, Somerset County Chief of County Detectives Stuart A. Buckman and Branchburg Township Chief of Police Brian Fitzgerald.

Passenger Melissa Silverman, no address provided, was taken by the New Jersey State Police medevac helicopter to the hospital, while DiGiorgio was taken to Somerset Medical Center by the hospital's Mobile Intensive Care Unit. 

The prosecutor's office investigated the 7:30 p.m. May 26 accident, reporting that DiGiorgio appears to have lost control of the vehicle, before running off the road and hitting a utility pole. After hitting the pole, the vehicle became engulfed in flames.

Soriano reported both occupants were not wearing seat belts and were removed from the vehicle by bystanders as the fire started.

Also responding to the accident site were members of the Neshanic volunteer fire company, Branchburg Rescue Squad and the Country Hills Fire Department.

This article was edited to correct information released by the prosecutor's office.