Truck fire causes delays on southbound New Jersey Turnpike, Lavallette NJ


A truck fire on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike near interchange 13 caused lane closures and traffic delays. The fire is out but some lanes remain closed, leading to slow traffic and delays up to 30 minutes.
Audio|Source: New Jersey Transit
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Transcript:
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Good morning, once again, operators, Control Center Council number 18, 10-1940M.
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Just giving you guys an update with the truck fire incident on the Turnpike Southbound, Southwax-13.
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Seems to be still ongoing because the fire is out, however.
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They still have some lane closed in the highway on the outer roadway.
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which is by 50 and E.
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And I wanted to put the car lanes there.
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So we have these traffic delays, it's mounting between 13 and 13A. It's not going to get on that because I've probably been able to get into 30 minutes to get through this. So coming south,
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please driving the car lanes by 15.
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Let me stop on a turnpike so you can wait a traffic delays.
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If you're already coming down on a turnpike so you can try to delays, committed to the on roadway south of the mix and bull.
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How many are you going to put you on the parkway to get back down to which area back down in which area.
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without good light, no incident on the parkway, so we have smooth traffic coming south on the parkway from the airway from the airmen.
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Once again,
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please be calling on the mixing bowl areas you can want the traffic place on the outside-bound.
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Coming northbound, you may experience a minor rubber-necking traffic kept to have a motorist like the most-co-land-stop-based All right. Once again, I think we have the information regarding this truck fire.
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Titanized 9.5 p.m. Drive difficult.
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Location mentioned:
Near New Jersey Ave, Lavallette, NJ 08735
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