{"id":278321,"date":"2026-06-25T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:41:36","slug":"nj-turnpike-traffic-backed-up-miles-after-tractor-trailers-crash-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278321\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Turnpike traffic backed up miles after tractor-trailers crash \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fiery crash involving four tractor-trailers shut down part of the New Jersey Turnpike for hours on Thursday, and resulted in at least one death. <\/p>\n<p>The trucks collided and burst into flames in Carteret. According to state police, three trucks had been stopped in the right and center lanes heading northbound when a fourth struck them from behind. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the fourth tractor-trailer died. <\/p>\n<p>The morning crash generated miles-long backups for several hours. <\/p>\n<p>The northbound inner roadway short of Interchange 12 appeared to have sustained heavy damage and it was closed for hours. It reopened just after 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fiery crash involving four tractor-trailers shut down part of the New Jersey Turnpike for hours on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1066,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-278321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}