Vehicle fire damages guardrail on New Jersey Turnpike, Camden County NJ


A vehicle caught fire on the southbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike near mile marker 34.9. The fire damaged about 30 feet of guardrail, causing lane closures and requiring immediate repair.
Audio|Source: New Jersey Turnpike Authority and NJDOT
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Transcript:
00:00
Hey man, I'm 22 at this vehicle fire south, right at near mile marker 34.8.
00:06
The VMS I was passing going south at 37.
00:10
Can you just lower speed there to 45? We got a couple lanes down. We got right and center lane down right now.
00:21
Operations received so thank you.
00:23
Operations 892?
00:28
892.
00:30
892? What operations, sir?
00:35
I reference the vehicle signal 11 fire south at near 34.9. I got an unknown amount of guard rail maybe 30 foot taken out of here by the vehicle it's going to need immediate repair.
00:58
I'll try to get your pictures. This is hard right now. The vehicle's still on the rail, completely on fire.
01:04
So, once that settles,
01:06
I'll get you more pictures. But we're going to need a right shoulder out here for Southern Division.
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