Dump Truck Crashes Into South Brunswick House; Driver Trapped: PD

Breaking: The driver was trapped for 40 minutes and had to be extricated, police said.

Posted Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:41 am ET|Updated Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:43 am ET

SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A dump truck crashed into a house in South Brunswick on Wednesday, police said.

The incident happened at 4:20 a.m. when a Mack tandem dump truck crashed into a house at 3 Shelley Rd., police said.

The driver was trapped for 40 minutes and had to be extricated by Kendall Park Fire Co. with help from George's Towing, police said.

Kendall Park EMS took the driver to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for serious injuries, police said.

Three people were in the home at the time of the crash and were uninjured. The home is uninhabitable, police said.

Prior to the crash the truck was headed eastbound on New Road. South Brunswick Police Traffic Safety Bureau is on scene and investigating.

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