Traffic & Transit

Driver Air-Lifted After Semi, Dump Truck Collide On Route 206

A tractor-trailer and a dump truck collided this morning, causing the driver of the latter to be extricated and flown out to the hospital.

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The two vehicles crashed early Monday morning. (Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department)
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The two vehicles crashed early Monday morning. (Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department)
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The two vehicles crashed early Monday morning. (Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department)
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The two vehicles crashed early Monday morning. (Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department)

PEAPACK, NJ — A dump truck driver had to be extricated and flown out by state police via helicopter to the hospital, after crashing with a tractor-trailer, in Peapack.

The accident happened around 7 a.m., on Route 206 before Pottersville Road, where the old Elks Club building was, according to the Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department.

Officials were not sure what caused the accident.

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The tractor-trailer driver was not taken to the hospital.

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