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Truck Crashes on Route 9 and the Edison Bridge

Route 9 through Woodbridge, Sayreville, Old Bridge and South Amboy, including the Edison Bridge, had a fatal crash involving a large truck in every year from 2019 to 2024 (NHTSA FARS). Your report is with the town police; the State Police filed none here.

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fatal crashes involving a large truck and people killed on Route 9, with at least one in every year

2019–2024, NHTSA FARS

339

reportable truck and bus crashes on Route 9 in Middlesex; 8 fatal, 217 people injured

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

0 of 339

Route 9 truck crash reports were filed by the State Police; all were town police

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

This page covers what the data shows, which department has your report (two of the three main ones have not confirmed how they release it), 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 road and its trucks

NJDOT high-crash corridor

A 4.2-mile “US 9, Middlesex” segment is on NJDOT's statewide list of 20 high-crash truck corridors: 657 crashes, 132 involving trucks, 145 people injured.

NJDOT 2023 Statewide Freight Plan, 2019 data

Why trucks are on Route 9

Commercial vehicles over 10,000 lb are barred from the Garden State Parkway north of Interchange 105, so trucks headed the Parkway's way use Route 9 instead. The one exception is the KT Ramp in Woodbridge, which lets trucks reach the Turnpike from northbound Route 9.

N.J.A.C. 19:9-1.9(b), amended effective January 6, 2025

Crashes by town

Reportable truck and bus crashes on Route 9, 2021–2025: Old Bridge 140, Woodbridge 89, Sayreville 84, South Amboy 25.

FMCSA crash file, town names merged

What kind of trucks

Dump bodies were involved in 54 Route 9 crashes and cargo tanks in 19, the most cargo-tank crashes of any Middlesex road along with Route 1 and the Turnpike.

FMCSA crash file, 2021–2025

The Move Over law

Drivers must change lanes away from, or slow below the limit and prepare to stop for, stationary vehicles showing warning lights, including disabled vehicles using hazard lights, flares or triangles. Fines are $100 to $500.

N.J.S.A. 39:4-92.2, last amended 2023

Recent crashes on Route 9

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

  • May 21, 2025, Route 9 northbound on the Edison Bridge, Sayreville: a truck driver repairing his disabled tractor-trailer on the shoulder was struck and killed by a driver passing on the shoulder. That driver was charged with strict-liability vehicular homicide; the Prosecutor's Office said he was impaired. The disposition of the charge has not been checked. FMCSA records the same crash on May 21, 2025.
  • September 21, 2023, before dawn, Route 9 south, Parlin (Sayreville): a dump truck left the road and struck a pickup turning into a gas station, killing the pickup's driver. See
    dump, garbage and construction trucks
    .
  • February 11, 2023, Route 9 near Frederick Place, Sayreville: a fuel-tanker collision closed Route 9 in both directions; County Hazmat transferred the fuel. See
    tanker and hazmat crashes
    .

The other fatal crashes involving a large truck on Route 9, 2019–2024 (NHTSA FARS; 2024 preliminary): May 20, 2019, 3:34 a.m., at Old Mill Road, Old Bridge, a rear-end collision with a tractor-trailer; October 8, 2020, 1:49 a.m., Old Bridge, a rear-end collision with a tractor-trailer; April 3, 2021, 3:40 a.m., at Ferry Road, Old Bridge, a collision with a tractor-trailer; December 20, 2022, morning, Sayreville, a rear-end collision with a box truck; April 18, 2023, 3:21 a.m., Sayreville, a pedestrian struck by a tractor-trailer; June 2, 2024, 1:04 a.m., Old Bridge, an angle collision involving a flatbed straight truck; and November 14, 2024, before dawn, Sayreville, a five-vehicle crash involving a flatbed truck and a concrete barrier. In each, one person died, and seven of the eight Route 9 fatal crashes happened in the dark.

Across 2021–2025, 8 of the 339 reportable truck and bus crashes on Route 9 were fatal and 137 involved an injury, with 217 people hurt (FMCSA crash file).

Who patrols it and where the report comes from

Who files the report

Town police only. In 2021–2025 the reporting agency on Route 9 was Old Bridge Police 104 times, Sayreville 79 and Woodbridge 64, with South Amboy and others taking the rest. The State Police filed 0 of 339.

FMCSA crash file, reporting agency field

Woodbridge Police

Records Bureau, ground floor of the municipal building, 1 Main Street, Monday–Friday 8:30–4:15 (Tuesday to 6:30). Crash reports $0.50 per page. Records 732-602-7390.

Woodbridge Township, verified September 2026

Sayreville Police

1000 Main Street, Sayreville, (732) 727-4444. The department's records page was not reachable and its crash-report method is unconfirmed.

Sayreville PD; method UNVERIFIED

Old Bridge Police

1 Old Bridge Plaza, township main line 732-721-5600. The Records Bureau page gives no procedure; the crash-report method is unconfirmed.

Old Bridge Township; method UNVERIFIED

South Amboy Police

Records pick-up Tuesday to Thursday, 8:30–4, for a “nominal fee.” Phone number unconfirmed.

City of South Amboy

Fatal and serious crashes

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office co-investigates, as it did at Parlin in 2023 and on the Edison Bridge in 2025. 25 Kirkpatrick Street, New Brunswick, (732) 745-3300; Fatal Crash Unit 732-745-4328.

MCPO, verified September 2026

Turnpike or Parkway side of Exit 11

State Police, Troop D, $5 report. See Turnpike Exits 10–12.

NJSP/NJTA crash report portal

What's hard to do alone

  • Two of the three report methods are unconfirmed. Woodbridge publishes its procedure. Sayreville and Old Bridge, which together filed 183 of the 339 Route 9 truck reports, do not, so getting the report means a phone call and a records-window visit, not a download.
  • Truck drivers are victims here too. Of the 54 people killed in Middlesex large-truck crashes in 2019–2024, 8 were truck occupants, including the driver killed on the Edison Bridge shoulder. A driver's claim can involve both the at-fault motorist and the driver's own employer's coverage.
  • Shoulder crashes turn on records. Why the truck was stopped and whether warning triangles were out are answered by the carrier's dispatch and breakdown records and by police photographs, which are released only after the case closes.
  • The criminal case controls the file. When a driver is charged, the prosecutor holds the investigation through discovery.

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What GGL does for you here

  • Gets the report from the right department, by phone and in person where no online method exists
  • Tracks the Prosecutor's Office case and subpoenas the investigative file and photographs once suit is filed
  • Identifies the responsible carrier and every insurer, including the truck driver's own employer's coverage where the driver was the one hurt
  • Sends preservation letters to the carrier for logs, engine data, dashcam, dispatch and breakdown records
  • Handles the insurers while you recover

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