Late-Evening Traffic: A Crash Closes a Lane on NJ 38 in Mount Laurel, US 40 Stays Closed in Pittsgrove, and a Disabled Tractor-Trailer Still Blocks a Lane on US 1 in Lawrence
The 511NJ board at 5:45 p.m. Eastern is led by a fresh crash on NJ 38 west of I-295. The Pittsgrove closure enters its third hour, the Morristown-area gas main break still closes a shoulder on US 202, and the Turnpike crash at Linden has dropped off the board's top listing.
The late-evening board has a new lead item in Burlington County. NJDOT's 511NJ feed, timestamped 5:45 p.m. Eastern and read in full by this desk, reports a crash on NJ 38 westbound west of I-295 in Mount Laurel Township, with one left lane of two closed, in an NJDOT entry timestamped 5:27 p.m. It is the only new crash on the New Jersey side of the board this hour, and it sits on the corridor that carries the evening drive between the I-295 belt and the Route 38 retail strip.
The afternoon's hardest items are still on the board. On US 40 in both directions at CR 611, Dutch Row Road, in Pittsgrove Township, the crash investigation continues to close all lanes eastbound and all lanes westbound, in an entry timestamped 3:30 p.m. — the feed reports no injuries or fatalities, and none are reported here. On US 1 northbound at US 1 Business in Lawrence Township, a disabled tractor-trailer still closes one right lane of two, its entry now timestamped 5:15 p.m. And the gas main break on US 202 northbound still closes the right shoulder — the feed's location for it now reads Old Harter Road in Morris Township, where the afternoon feed read south of NJ 24 in Morristown; the desk states the location as the current feed states it. The standing items are unchanged: Port Street in Newark remains under truck restrictions in both directions between Brewster Road and Marlin Street, with the left lane closed, and the George Washington Bridge lower level eastbound carries truck restrictions with all lanes open.
One honest absence closes the file. The Turnpike northbound crash in Linden — two of three lanes blocked on the Inner Roadway south of Interchange 13 in the 3:46 p.m. feed, and the lead item of this desk's evening file (SQ-20261102-048) — does not appear in the top listing of the 5:45 p.m. feed read this run. This desk claims no clearance time for it, because the feed gives none; a dropped listing is not a reopening notice. For drivers still out tonight, the practical read is NJ 38 at Mount Laurel, the full stop on US 40, and a lane down on US 1 — and 511NJ remains the live source for every one of them.
