NEW JERSEY (TNND) — A plane crashed into a bakery truck while traveling northbound on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday at 1:50 p.m. EST. The bakery truck was headed towards Newark, New Jersey, hauling product from Schmidt Bakery.
According to Chuck Paterakis, the senior vice president of Transportation & Logistics and co-principal at H&S Bakery, the incident happened as the driver exited onto the turnpike. While the trailer was unscathed, the wheel of the commercial plane crashed into the driver’s window.
The truck driver suffered small cuts from the incident and is currently at a hospital receiving care.
According to Paterakis, the plane was preparing to land in Newark when the incident took place.
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 comment.
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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 said, “if we did that scenario again, I don’t know if anybody could’ve survived that.”
