Motorcyclist dies after Route 130 accident

Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:00 am

By David Levinsky

BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP - A Pennsylvania man died Monday after a motor vehicle accident on Route 130 that involved an unlicensed illegal immigrant, police said.

Andoni Beltre, 22, of Morrisville, Pa., was riding a motorcycle south at 8:36 a.m. when he collided with a landscaping trailer being hauled by a pickup truck that was making a left from northbound Route 130 onto Burlington Avenue.

According to initial police radio reports, Beltre was knocked unconscious and suffered an amputated arm. He was airlifted to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, where he died, police said.

The driver of the pickup truck, identified as Concepcion Gomez-Perez, 27, of Pennsauken, was not injured.

Gomez-Perez was driving without a license and was taken into custody, police said. Further investigation revealed he was an illegal immigrant employed by Jay's Landscaping of Riverside, police said.

An employee who answered the phone at the business declined to comment.

Gomez-Perez was charged with causing death with an automobile and driving without a license. He was sent to Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $55,000 bail.

The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office and the Bordentown Township police are investigating.

The motor vehicle fatality is the 24th this year in Burlington County and the second in the last two years involving a vehicle driven by an illegal immigrant. An April 8, 2009, accident resulted in the death of 27-year-old Evesham teacher Amy Voorhees. The driver was charged with vehicular homicide, but a grand jury determined that there was not enough evidence to support the charge.

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