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BY ALICIA CRUZ

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The GPS made me do it. That's his story and he's sticking to it. A Marlboro teen, driving on a provisional driver's license, told police that he tried to make an illegal left turn onto Sweetmans Lane in Manalapan after following directions from the GPS system in his vehicle.

The teenaged driver, 17, was headed westbound on Route 33 in his Ford Mustang around 7:50 p.m. when the GPS told him to make a left turn onto the street causing a four-car collision that sent one driver to the hospital with neck injuries. The teen then cut across the eastbound lanes of Route 33 and struck a vehicle on the left side. The impact spun the car around 180 degrees before it came to rest facing oncoming traffic.

A third car struck the rear bumper of the teen's out-of-control Mustang, pushing that car into a spin before it too came to rest facing the eastbound oncoming traffic.

A fourth vehicle traveling in the eastbound lanes swerved left to avoid the multi-car pile-up, when it struck the median, damaging both right-side tires before rolling into the westbound lanes where it came to a stop.

The teen, from the Morganville section of Marlboro, was cited for careless driving, making an improper turn and violating the terms of his provisional driver's license. He was transporting two juveniles in his Mustang at the time of the accident; a violation of New Jersey's newly adopted driver's license rules.