59-year-old tractor-trailer driver died in a single-vehicle collision with a toll plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike in Salem County, New Jersey
Driver killed when tractor-trailer hits N.J. Turnpike toll plaza, bursts into flames
The 59-year-old Biscoe, North Carolina, man was traveling north on the Turnpike approaching the Interchange 1 toll plaza in Carneys Point Township around 3:15 a.m. when his truck struck the concrete divider that separates toll lanes one and two, according to a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
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