Spilled load of lumber closes Turnpike truck lanes

A tractor trailer overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike, spilling lumber onto the roadway, causing a closure of the truck lanes.

An overturned flatbed truck and its spilled load of lumber on the NJ Turnpike (Westampton Township Emergency Services)

6 ABC reports the flatbed hit a box truck in the northbound outer lanes between exit #6 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) and #7 (Route 206) causing the overturn. Two people who were trapped inside the tractor trailer's cab, were later freed. The Courier-Post reports they were treated at Capital Health Hospital in Trenton.

As the clean up operation and investigation continues a multi-mile rubber necking delay has developed on the shared car-and-truck lane according to New Jersey Fast Traffic.