80-Year-Old Woman Killed In Elizabeth Tractor Trailer Crash: State PD

The Freightliner tractor trailer rear-ended a disabled car parked in the right lane, injuring one and killing another, police said. ELIZABETH, NJ -...

May 2, 2023
7:50 PM

The Freightliner tractor trailer rear-ended a disabled car parked in the right lane, injuring one and killing another, police said. ELIZABETH, NJ - An 80-year-old woman from New York was killed in a Sunday night New Jersey Turnpike collision with a tractor trailer, authorities said. The crash took place at around 10:39 p.m. on Sunday night on the New Jersey Turnpike outer roadway near milepost 99.9 in Elizabeth, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police told Patch. An initial investigation revealed that a Freightliner tractor was traveling in the right lane and a Ford Econoline was parked disabled in the right lane ahead of the Freightliner when, in the area of MP 99.

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