Authorities have identified the 30-year-old off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper killed Sunday evening in a crash in Greenwich Township.
Officials said Brian McNally, 30, of Bedminster, was driving east at 6:30 p.m. on Interstate 78 in Greenwich Township when he rear-ending a tractor-trailer driven by Nuritdin Juraev, 33, of Windsor, Maryland.
According to authorities, McNally’s SUV and the tractor-trailer caught fire. Police said McNally was pronounced dead at the scene.
The tractor-trailer driver was transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township with minor injuries.
The incident remains under investigation.