Kendall Park Man Trapped In Fiery South Brunswick Car Crash

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A local Kendall Park man in his 60s was briefly trapped inside his car when it burst into flames following a two-car collision Tuesday morning at Rt. 1 and New Road, say South Brunswick police.

That is an extremely busy intersection, and Rt. 1 at New Road was closed in both directions for several hours on Tuesday.

The crash occurred at 10:07 a.m. Tuesday: The car driven by the Kendall Park man was making a turn onto Rt. 1 from New Road, with the green light, when he was T-boned by a car headed southbound on Rt. 1, said Lt. Gene Rickle of the South Brunswick police.

The car on Rt. 1, driven by a Plainsboro resident, drove through a red light, said police.

The impact of the collision caused both cars to spin out onto Rt. 1 and one of them hit a third car. The Kendall Park man was briefly trapped inside his car when it caught fire. Police and responding fire crews rescued him and he was rushed to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.

He is currently in stable condition.

The other two drivers were not injured, he said.

One of the cars came to rest in the northbound lanes of Rt. 1 and the other came to rest in the southbound lanes. That intersection had to be closed for several hours Tuesday morning, mostly to remove the vehicles, he said.