The NJ State Police is actively investigating a pedestrian strike that left a person dead on the Garden State Parkway in East Orange overnight.
Details regarding the incident are developing, but according to preliminary reports, police were called to the northbound lanes near mile marker 147.7 to investigate reports of an injured person.
Upon arrival, they found an unidentified person lying in the roadway after a vehicle reportedly struck them.
Medical personnel pronounced the victim dead at the scene a short time later reports said.
Police closed all northbound lanes for the investigation and to look into what caused the incident.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.