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Truck Crashes on the Industrial Streets of Woodbridge and Carteret

Not every truck crash happens on a highway. In Port Reading, Avenel, Raritan Center and Carteret, a crash at a yard gate or warehouse driveway is still a truck case, and the report comes from Woodbridge or Carteret police, not the State Police.

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119

reportable truck and bus crashes coded to Carteret; 55 on the Turnpike, 14 on Roosevelt Avenue

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

15

reportable truck crashes on Blair Road / Port Reading Avenue; 8 on Raritan Center Parkway

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

580

reportable truck and bus crashes coded to Woodbridge Township, the county's second most after Edison

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

This page covers what generates the truck traffic here, what the crash data shows street by street, which department has your report, and what has to happen in the first weeks. Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, P.C. handles those steps from offices in Edison, New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.

The streets and their trucks

Raritan Center (Edison and Woodbridge)

About 2,350 acres on the former Raritan Arsenal. NJDOT's freight plan describes it as home to major freight-generating and transporting companies, with good rail access and a 2,000-foot wharf in “extremely poor repair.” NJDOT awarded Woodbridge Township $7,609,062 for a rail freight facility there.

NJDOT 2023 Statewide Freight Plan

Rail and the Turnpike

The Turnpike crosses Conrail's Port Reading Secondary and runs beside the Chemical Coast Secondary into Carteret at Exit 12.

Source: New Jersey Turnpike Authority

Energy plants

The freight plan lists the PSEG Sewaren and Woodbridge Energy Center (Keasbey) generating plants among the area's freight nodes.

NJDOT 2023 Statewide Freight Plan

Streets in the crash file

Reportable truck and bus crashes, 2021–2025: Blair Road / Port Reading Avenue 15; Roosevelt Avenue (CR 602) in Carteret 14; Raritan Center Parkway 8; Middlesex Avenue / Peter J. Sica Industrial Highway 7.

FMCSA crash file; road names are free text, so counts are a floor

What kind of trucks

Countywide, enclosed van and box bodies were 2,249 of the 4,102 trucks and buses in reportable crashes (55%). Delivery and parcel traffic is the common case on these streets.

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

Recent crashes on these streets

Crashes are described by date, road, town and vehicle type only. Involving a truck does not mean the truck caused the crash.

  • September 2, 2026, Homestead Avenue, Woodbridge (Avenel): a car went under a delivery box truck. Woodbridge firefighters extricated the driver after a prolonged effort. The truck's ruptured saddle tank leaked diesel, bringing Middlesex County Hazmat. This is an underride crash, the kind the truck's rear and side guards are meant to prevent.
  • December 9, 2025, Peter J. Sica Industrial Highway, Carteret: a fatal crash involving a tractor-trailer, reported by Carteret Police (FMCSA crash file).
  • September 8, 2019, early evening, Turnpike, Carteret: a tractor-trailer struck a concrete barrier and its occupant died (NHTSA FARS). Turnpike crashes in Carteret are covered on
    the Exits 10–12 page
    .

Of Carteret's 119 reportable truck and bus crashes in 2021–2025, 1 was fatal and 54 people were injured. Woodbridge Township recorded 580 reportable crashes in the same period, 9 of them fatal, with 371 people injured; most were on Route 1, Route 9, Route 440 and the Turnpike rather than the side streets (FMCSA crash file, town names merged).

A fatal dump-truck crash coded to Port Reading Avenue in September 2023 appears in the FMCSA file but has no match in the federal fatal-crash file, so it is not listed here.

Who patrols it and where the report comes from

Woodbridge (Port Reading, Avenel, Keasbey, Sewaren, Raritan Center's Woodbridge side)

Woodbridge Police, 1 Main Street, Woodbridge, 732-634-7700. Reports at the Records Bureau on the ground floor of the municipal building, Monday–Friday 8:30–4:15 and Tuesday to 6:30. Crash reports $0.50 per page. Records 732-602-7390. Woodbridge sends State Police reports to NJSP.

Woodbridge Township, verified September 2026

Carteret

Carteret Police, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, (732) 541-4181. The department's page does not state how it releases crash reports; the borough posts an OPRA form.

Carteret PD; method UNVERIFIED

Raritan Center's Edison side

Edison Police, 100 Municipal Boulevard. Reports in person, usually 7–10 business days, $0.05 per letter page.

Edison Township, verified September 2026

On the Turnpike

State Police, Troop D. NJSP portal, “New Jersey Turnpike,” $5. In 2021–2025, 630 of the 638 Turnpike truck crash reports in Middlesex were NJSP's.

NJSP/NJTA crash report portal; FMCSA crash file

Hazmat response

Middlesex County Hazmat responds to fuel and chemical leaks, as at Homestead Avenue. Its records are a separate request from the police report.

News coverage, September 2, 2026

What to check in the report

Boxes 50–52 record the responsible carrier and USDOT number, which on a parcel or contract truck is often not the brand on the side. Box 114 gives the cargo body type. A wrong carrier can be fixed with a change report.

NJTR-1 Crash Report Manual, 2017

What's hard to do alone

  • Yard gates and loading areas add a party. A crash where a truck is entering or leaving a facility can involve the facility operator, which controls the gate, the yard and the cameras, as well as the carrier. Neither has a duty to keep records for you without a preservation letter.
  • Underride evidence disappears at the body shop. Whether a box truck's rear and side guards met the standard, and whether they were damaged or missing before the crash, can only be checked before the truck is repaired or scrapped.
  • The brand on the truck is not the defendant. Parcel and delivery routes are often run by contractors in leased or rented trucks. The NJTR-1 carrier boxes, the lease and the dispatch records identify who is responsible, and leased equipment carries its own federal rules (49 CFR 376.12).
  • The carrier's clocks. Electronic logs are kept six months; driver vehicle inspection reports three months.

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Related pages

Underride crashes (main site)

How underride happens and what the guards are for.

Read more →

Exit 8A warehouse and delivery trucks

The chain of companies behind one load, and how each is identified.

Read more →

Route 440 and the Outerbridge

The freeway these streets feed, where three agencies meet.

72 reportable crashes Read more →

Turnpike Exits 10–12

The Turnpike through Edison, Woodbridge and Carteret.

370 crashes coded to the three towns Read more →
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What GGL does for you here

  • Sends preservation letters to the carrier and to the facility for gate and yard video, dispatch and loading records
  • Gets the Woodbridge or Carteret report and reads the carrier boxes to identify the operator behind a parcel or contract truck, the lessor and any broker
  • Arranges an early inspection of the truck's guards and damage before it is repaired
  • Requests County Hazmat and fire-department records where fuel leaked or an extrication was needed
  • Handles the insurers while you recover

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