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Truck Crashes on Route 130 in Middlesex County

Route 130 through Cranbury, South Brunswick and North Brunswick is a designated truck route lined with distribution centers feeding Exit 8A. If a truck hit you here, the report is usually with South Brunswick or North Brunswick police.

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115

reportable truck and bus crashes on Route 130 in Middlesex; 5 fatal, 7 killed, 84 injured

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

4

fatal crashes involving a large truck on Route 130, 4 people killed

2019–2024, NHTSA FARS

46 · 46 · 22

crashes coded to North Brunswick, South Brunswick and Cranbury

2021–2025, FMCSA crash file

This page covers why the trucks are here, what the crash data shows, 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 road and its trucks

Designated truck route

The Turnpike, Route 1 and Route 130 are the designated truck routes through the Exit 8A area. The NJTPA freight study says Route 130 carries “significant truck volumes” to Interchange 8A and recommends routing trucks by Route 130 rather than by CR 619 (Applegarth Road) and the roads east of the Turnpike.

Southern Middlesex County Freight Movement Study, NJTPA, 2023

National Network

Parts of Route 130 are on the National Network, the system of roads that 102-inch-wide trucks and double-trailer combinations must stay on, leaving only for food, fuel, rest, repairs or a terminal by the direct route.

N.J.A.C. 16:32; NJDOT truck routing

Heaviest truck volume

Route 130 between CR 522 (Ridge Road) and Fresh Ponds Road was one of the three highest truck-volume locations the study counted, with the two Exit 8A ramps.

Southern Middlesex County Freight Movement Study, NJTPA, 2023

Warehouses

Cranbury “is host to many warehouses along Route 130” and the roads to the Turnpike. The county study counted 15 warehouses planned, pending or approved around 8A in 2020–2022, adding more than 8 million square feet.

NJTPA, Southern Middlesex County Freight Movement Study, 2023

Recommended fixes nearby

Reconfigure the CR 535 (South River Road) interchange, signalize the CR 522 ramps, and safety work at the CR 539 traffic circle.

Southern Middlesex County Freight Movement Study, NJTPA, 2023

Recent crashes on Route 130

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

Of the 115 reportable truck and bus crashes on Route 130 in 2021–2025, 5 were fatal and 57 involved an injury (FMCSA crash file). The federal count includes a school-bus crash on January 31, 2024, at Stults Road in South Brunswick, in which a car turning left struck a school bus and three people in the car were killed. That is a bus case, not a truck case, and it is covered on the bus page.

Fatal crashes involving a large truck on Route 130, 2019–2024 (NHTSA FARS; 2024 preliminary):

  • December 10, 2019, late afternoon, North Brunswick: a same-direction sideswipe involving a tractor-trailer and three other vehicles on a lit section after dark. One person in another vehicle died.
  • April 9, 2021, morning, at Adams Lane, North Brunswick: a same-direction sideswipe involving a step van and three other vehicles. One person in another vehicle died.
  • September 24, 2021, dusk, at Deans Rhode Hall Road, South Brunswick: a rear-end collision with a tractor-trailer. One person in the other vehicle died.
  • June 28, 2022, 11:50 p.m., North Brunswick: a rear-end collision involving a tractor-trailer and three other vehicles. One person in another vehicle died.

Three of the four were same-direction crashes, sideswipes or rear-ends, which is the pattern of a multi-lane highway where trucks are merging from warehouse gates and signals. All four people who died were in other vehicles.

Who patrols it and where the report comes from

Who files the report

Town police, chiefly South Brunswick and North Brunswick. The State Police filed 1 of the 115 reportable truck crashes on Route 130 in 2021–2025.

FMCSA crash file, reporting agency field

North Brunswick Police

710 Hermann Road, North Brunswick. Reports are posted to CrashDocs.org; the township says they can be downloaded free of charge. Report numbers use the format YYYY-NNNNNN. 732-247-0922.

North Brunswick Township, verified September 2026

South Brunswick Police

540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. LexisNexis BuyCrash $8, in person $0.05 a page, or mail a $5 check. Records 732-823-3970, pdrec@sbpdnj.net.

South Brunswick PD, verified September 2026

Cranbury Township Police

Records: records@cranbury-nj.com, (609) 664-3238. South Brunswick dispatches for Cranbury. Online vendor unconfirmed.

Cranbury Township

Fatal and serious crashes

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office co-investigates with the town. Fatal Crash Unit 732-745-4328. While charges are pending, the prosecutor controls the file.

MCPO, verified September 2026

What to check in the report

Boxes 50–52 name the responsible carrier and its USDOT number; Box 114 gives the cargo body type; Box 145 is the narrative and says whether photos were taken. A wrong carrier can be fixed with a change report.

NJTR-1 Crash Report Manual, 2017

What's hard to do alone

  • Warehouse-gate turns involve more than the driver. A truck pulling out of a distribution center onto Route 130 may have been dispatched, loaded and released by a yard that is not the carrier. The yard's gate log, loading records and dispatch time sit with the warehouse, and the warehouse is under no duty to keep them for you.
  • The door name is not the defendant. The NJTR-1 manual itself warns officers that the number painted on the door “may not be that of the carrier responsible for the vehicle/load.” Statewide, leasing-company names show up in crash records because officers wrote the owner, not the carrier.
  • State-highway cameras and signals. Route 130 is NJDOT's road. Camera video must be requested electronically and received within seven calendar days, at $100 per camera for the first three hours.
  • The carrier's own clocks. Electronic logs are kept six months; driver inspection reports three months.

“If you are dealing with injuries after a blind-spot collision, the legal process can feel overwhelming, especially when trucking companies and insurers move quickly to limit your claim.”

Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, P.C.

Related pages

Exit 8A warehouse and delivery trucks

Who is responsible when a shipper, warehouse, broker and carrier all touch one load.

589 crashes coded to the 8A towns Read more →

CR 535 and the Exit 8A roads

The county roads that connect Route 130 to the interchange.

94 reportable crashes on CR 535 Read more →

Turnpike Exits 8A–9

Where Route 130's truck traffic is headed.

638 reportable Turnpike crashes Read more →
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What GGL does for you here

  • Orders the town report and reads the carrier boxes to identify the carrier, the lessor and any broker behind the truck
  • Sends preservation letters to the warehouse or yard for gate video, loading and dispatch records, and to the carrier for logs, engine data and dashcam
  • Files the NJDOT camera request within seven calendar days
  • Handles the insurers while you recover, and coordinates your medical bills under your own auto policy's PIP

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