Plane wheel crashes into bakery truck on NJ Turnpike, driver survives with cuts
NEW JERSEY (TNND) — A airplane crashed into a bakery truck whereas touring northbound on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday at 1:50 pm EST. The bakery truck was headed in the direction of Newark, New Jersey, hauling product from Schmidt Bakery.
According to Chuck Paterakis, the senior vp of Transportation & Logistics and co-principal at H&S Bakery, the incident occurred because the driver exited onto the turnpike. While the trailer was unscathed, the wheel of the industrial airplane crashed into the driver’s window.
The truck driver suffered small cuts from the incident and is presently at a hospital receiving care.
According to Paterakis, the airplane was getting ready to land in Newark when the incident happened.
The National News Desk has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for a remark.
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“To me, that everybody on that plane, everybody and the driver, God was looking after them, there’s no doubt,” Paterakis stated, “if we did that scenario again, I don’t know if anybody could’ve survived that.”
