The truck driver killed in yesterday's tanker crash on the New Jersey Turnpike has been identified as a 40-year-old Newark man, a co-worker said today.
The Kearny Fire Department and State Police responded to the Western spur near mile marker 110, shortly after 3 p.m. for an accident involving an engulfed tanker truck on the right shoulder of the roadway.
According to police, the truck driver -Dalip Kumar - lost control of the truck when he attempted to avoid several mattresses and box springs that fell onto the road off a white cargo van.
The truck, carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline, flipped over and burst into flames. Kumar was pronounced dead at the scene.
The accident also involved a Honda CRV, whose driver suffered minor injuries, according to police.
State police added that the driver of the cargo van - 26-year-old Adam Abuhamoud, of Linden - who was carrying two mattresses and two boxsprings, remained at the scene and has not been charged with any crime.