Hit an overpass, two people injured, a medevac helicopter landed taking a person to the hospital. Theres debris all over the roadway, they need to check the integrity of the overpass that the tractortrailer hit. This could be closed for an hour, north of exit 4. You can get on exit 4, but if youre coming down from exit 5 or 6, all lanes blocked on the new jersey turnpike thats the overpass where they think damage was done. If youre in the area stick to 295 as the alternate. A live look at 295 traffic is moving fine, it runs parallel to the turnpike, stick to 29 a 5. We have an accident on the boulevard northbound between c and f streets. One this abington on old york road watch for this accident restricting traffic. The big traffic issue is the accident on the new jersey turnpike. Reporter cloud cover has receded overnight and is starting to evaporate. Looks like well get off to a sunny start once the sun gets up over the horizon this morning. 28 degrees, its cold out there. 27 in alle
Fight and the gunman shoots the manager and gets away. Karen rogers will have more on the new jersey turnpike situation, david murphy has accuweather good morning to you both. Reporter we start with breaking news, an accident shutting down all lanes of the new jersey turnpike. This is southbound approaching 73. If youre getting on exit 4 southbound youre fine. Here you have the accident scene with all the emergency workers there. Can you see this area right here . This looks like what the tractortrailer hit into, they are checking the Structural Integrity of the overpass on the turnpike. Thats why the crews are out here all morning. Its a serious accident, two people were injured, one person was medevacd out of here, they shut both lanes down of the new jersey turnpike when that happened. This is new jersey turnpike southbound north of exit 4, youre dealing with the mess with crews on the scene trying to see the integrity of this overpass before they open all lanes. Lets go to the maps