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Down my neck and i laid back. Thats all i remember. Reporter witnesses say the driver of the minivan, 30year old Keith Jeffords tried to run away and was even confrontational until he was eventually arrested. He get out running, running. A girl here and he was fighting everyone. He was in front of me. So, he tried to move out and go in the store. So, he was there running. Reporter now, police say jeffords has been charged with assault, dwi, four counts of assault, rather, dwi and leaving the scene of an accident with serious bodily injury. There were two spas gears in his car. They were taken two passengers in his car. They were taken to Christ Hospital but left without being treated. They refused treatment there. Coming up on first at 4 00 we will hear from one of the eyewitnesses and Good Samaritans that tried to tus ....
This is really affecting people who are going to Newark Airport, going to catch a flight or pick someone up, leave yourself a lot of extra time or head for routes 1 and 9. You can get off the garden state parkway, take 78 east, get on into Newark Airport that way. Newark airport flights are not affected. New york air train is running without a problem. New jersey turnpike is something to cross off the list. We will take a look at a camera and show you the delay. We will look at another camera this is a webcam. Another camera and show you the delay as you head southbound on the new jersey turnpike. This is right across Newark Airport. So, here you have the inner roadway which is known as the car lanes. You can see traffic is barely moving. Its at a crawl. To the right of that is where the track lanes are. There is no traf ....
Bridge but like i said, you know with the power and also the structural integrity. We have to determine that before we can let anybody come across. Reporter this update. Engineers late this afternoon obviously deciding that that overpass can stand the usage. The weight of those heavy trucks allowing traffic to finally flow across again. And of course, you can see behind me utility trucks still traveling over that overpass. Now were going to break down and go a little bit closer so we can see whats happening on the turnpike at this point. We also got chance too speak to some of the drivers who were stuck out on the turnpike for hours. Their story coming up at 5 00. For now live here in linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thanks a lot. Well, from the ground with to knee to the sky now. Lets check in with shannon stone. Shes in news copter 7 continuing the coverage with more on the traffic situation. Shannon . Reporter ye ....
Police on an update on the truck driver. For now we are live here in linen linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lets get an update from shannon sohn from high above in newscopter 7. Weve done the tour around from the north, south, east, no matter how you try and get around this new jersey turnpike closure its a nice mate nightmare. That is the southbound delay into interstate 10. What you are finding is all of this traffic is backed up getting right into interchange 10 and this is what the problem really is right here, we can show you with sky rider 7 once you get off the 10 you have an option to take to the northbound side, you can get onto the outer roadway, it is just the inner roadway that is closed down but that is where that inner roadway merges in right here and it is causing nightmare traffic. It is a little bit better than it was before but we are going to show you the reason for that. This right here coming in ....