Lozier was a 2006 graduate of Middle Township High School, where he also played varsity baseball.

In the fall, he would have been a junior at West Virginia University, studying business.

Family remembered him as a young man who made friends wherever he went, who had the world in front of him.

His father, mother and older sister held one another and cried on the front porch of their home Tuesday afternoon.

Craig was intelligent, warm and compassionate, they said.

"He would have made a difference," said his father, Scott, a local dentist.

"He was my little buddy. He was like my best friend," his father said. "Even as he got older, he was still my buddy. It's just not fair; his whole lifetime ruined."

"He had the biggest heart for a young man," Craig's mother said.

The accident occurred Monday afternoon on Route 47 near Woodcock Road, which is south of Hand Avenue.

Township police said Lozier was heading north on Route 47 on his motorcycle.

Golden and a passenger, Kyle Zalot, 18, of Philadelphia, were headed south, police said.

Police said Golden tried to pass vehicles on Route 47, which is one lane in each direction, and lost control of the vehicle, causing it to veer into the opposite lane.

Lozier was pronounced dead at the scene.

Golden and Zalot were treated for minor injuries and released from Cape Regional Medical Center.

Township police and the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office's Fatal Accident Unit are continuing the investigation.

The fatal accident Monday came amid a series of tragic deaths in Cape May County over the past two months - all involving alleged intoxicated drivers.

On June 21, 18-year-old Vineland resident Joshua Moren, a recent graduate of Sacred Heart High School, was killed when a woman allegedly crossed a double-yellow line in her vehicle and collided with Moren's motorcycle on Route 47 in Middle Township, according to police reports.

That driver, Laura Lippie, 47, of Bridgeton, was charged with vehicular homicide and drunken driving, according to reports.

On June 10, 16-year-old Matthew Tozer, a sophomore at Cape May County Technical High School, was killed on Route 83 in Dennis Township after a driver allegedly crossed into oncoming traffic and struck Tozer's moped, according to State Police reports.

State Police said the driver of the car, Charles A. Nailie, 62, of Cape May Court House, was driving while intoxicated when he hit the moped.

And on May 15, Megan Perry, 25, of Wilmington, Del., was a passenger in a car returning from a rehearsal dinner for a wedding in Sea Isle City when the driver tried to pass a vehicle on Landis Avenue, lost control of the car and smashed into a telephone pole, according to Sea Isle City reports. Perry was supposed to have been a bridesmaid at her friend's wedding the following day.

Sea Isle City police charged the driver, Jayson Maykut, 28, of Wilmington, an airman for the Delaware Air National Guard, with driving while intoxicated and vehicular homicide in the crash.

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