1 Killed In Car Wreck Near N.J. Turnpike Exit

A 26-year-old man died in a crash near N.J. Turnpike Exit 8A, police said.

The crash was reported at 3:31 a.m. on Cranbury-South River Road (Route 535) at Pleasant Hill Road on the South Brunswick border with Monroe and Cranbury townships, police said.

One vehicle went off the road and overturned. The driver, a Middlesex County man, was partially ejected and killed.

Police, Fire, and EMS arrived and found the 2000 Infiniti G20 on its roof. Paramedics pronounced the driver dead at the scene.

South Brunswick Police Traffic Safety Bureau investigators determined the Infiniti was headed north on Cranbury South River Road when it left the eastern shoulder of the roadway, struck a grass hill, became airborne and overturned.

There were no other occupants of the vehicle.

Cranbury-South River Road was closed for two hours as investigators pieced the scene together.