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An 80-year-old driver died Saturday after her vehicle ran off the road in Ocean County, police said. Officers responded to the crash shortly after 9 p.m. at the intersection of New Mexico Drive and Washington Lane in the Whiting section of Manchester. The driver, Patricia Ford, of Whiting, was found in a small SUV that had crashed into a tree, the Manchester Township Police Department said in a news statement. When police found Ford, she was not wearing a seatbelt. She was pronounced dead a short time later at Community Medical Center, officials said. An investigation into the crash found that…

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