TRAGIC: Mother of five killed in car crash after boyfriend cut brake lines to make crack pipe
A 38-year-old mother of five from Scranton died in a car accident that was caused after her boyfriend cut her brake lines, say Pennsylvania State Police. The state police at Dunmore in Lackawanna County say that the culprit, one 39-year-old John William Jenkins Jr., committed the deed "in an attempt to obtain a metal pipe that could be used to smoke crack cocaine."
According to Lehigh Valley Live, the victim, Tammy A. Fox was a Jersey City native and was driving her black Hyundai Sonata at around 10 a.m. on August 22 west on Pine Street in Scranton when the vehicle suddenly "began to accelerate." A news release by the police states that the vehicle then crossed through the intersection at Pine Street and North Washington Avenue and "violently struck a tree" and "several parked cars." A witness said Fox was driving between 50-60 mph. She later succumbed to her injuries from the crash.
