SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) -- A truck driver from Queens, N.Y., is in critical but stable condition at a Newark hospital after his tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline flipped over and caught fire on a New Jersey Turnpike exit ramp in Secaucus.
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Police say 33-year-old Rajinder Singh was able to run from the overturned cab and was taken to University Hospital by a passing motorist.
Turnpike spokesman Joe Orlando said the truck crashed at about 3 p.m. Thursday as it was exiting the northbound turnpike at Exit 16W.
Smoke from the fire was visible from as far south as Woodbridge. The crash snarled rush-hour traffic on the northbound turnpike, and the ramp remained closed into the evening as highway workers cleared the wreckage and checked the road surface for possible damage.
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