Two people were arrested for separate offenses after a tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge in Holmdel.
HOLMDEL — Two people were arrested Tuesday after a tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge and then another driver almost hit a police officer who was directing traffic around that accident scene.
Shortly before 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Holmdel police responded to the NJ Transit train bridge on Laurel Avenue in reference to a motor vehicle accident.
A tractor-trailer — being operated by Radisha Jones, 31, of East Orange — was traveling east on Laurel Avenue when it struck the train bridge and became wedged underneath it.
The tractor-trailer sustained extensive damage, including its roof being "peeled back" and the front and sides of the trailer detaching, police said.
Debris from the crash spread across the entire road and Laurel Avenue was closed in both directions for approximately three hours as a result, police said.
Jones was issued multiple summonses and was later placed under arrest after she was found to have an outstanding criminal warrant out of Newark.
Meanwhile, a Holmdel police officer was almost struck by a vehicle traveling on Laurel Avenue near Boxwood Terrace while directing traffic due to the tractor-trailer crash, police said.
The operator of that vehicle — identified as Neehat Bhatnagar, 29, of Holmdel - was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated.
Patrolman Rocco Quaglia of the Holmdel Township Police Department handled the accident investigation.
NJ Transit police and Middletown police assisted at the scene.
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