The car had been traveling on a ramp from Routes 1&9.
Using rope and other heavier equipment, firefighters took about an hour to free the man trapped inside his white car.
The crash left the truck laying on its side on the ramp, according to Newark police.
The driver of the car suffered severe head trauma with multiple cuts to his body and was transported to University Hospital, according to Newark police, who did not disclose the condition of the truck driver.
Response to a car that went down an embankment (Newark Public Safety) I commend the Newark Firefighters for their selfless bravery and diligence in rescuing this victim. Had it not been for their tireless efforts to extricate the victim, this incident could have resulted in a tragedy, Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said in a written statement. Our firefighters exemplified the high level of professionalism in the finest tradition of the Newark Fire Division.
The mission studied energy transfer in space.
The KiNET-X experiment created green and violet clouds in the evening sky over parts of the U.S. East Coast. (Image credit: NASA Wallops/Twitter)
The series finale of the KiNET-X mission successfully launched Sunday (May 16) at 8:44 p.m. EDT (0044 May 17 GMT) on a Black Brant XII rocket, from NASA s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the agency announced early Monday (May 17) via Twitter. The pictures probably showed more intense colors than the naked eye, as violet doesn t show up well to humans against the black background of the night sky.
The mission, also called the Kinetic-scale Energy and Momentum Transport Experiment, aims to better understand how energy and momentum transfer in phenomena like auroras, between different regions of space that are magnetically connected, NASA said in a mission description.
A wildfire found Monday night in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Vincentown in Burlington County is the second in the state since Sunday.
A state Forest Fire Service spokeswoman told New Jersey 101.5 on Tuesday morning that the agency is assessing the situation and did not yet have specifics about the fire.
A Nixle alert from Pemberton Township reported a fire along 4 Mile Road between Turkey Buzzard Bridge Road and Upper Mill Road on the western edge of the state forest. No structures were threatened, according to the alert.
The earlier fire in the Bass River State Forest in Little Egg Harbor is 75% contained and has not spread beyond the 617 acres burned since Sunday afternoon, according to the state Forest Fire Service.
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After more that a week of unfavorable weather, NASA launched a four-stage, Black Brant XII sounding rocket on Sunday night from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.