A Hunterdon County resident is asking for the New Jersey State Police to step up enforcement of traffic laws on Interstate 78, with a focus on those operating commercial vehicles.
To the editor:
During September and October 2015, I spent 45 days in cancer treatment at Morristown Medical Center.
This required a two-hour round-trip each day using Route 78 and then Route 287.
During those trips, tractor-trailers routinely passed me at 80 mph, some tailgated slower vehicles, many changed lanes regularly, and some even drove in the express lanes.
Fatal accidents pile up on this stretch of I-78
During those trips, I saw New Jersey State Police troopers pulling over dozens of passenger vehicles for unsafe driving violations. During that entire time, I never saw a single trooper pull over a truck. Not a single one.
On Thursday, another truck-related accident took place and shut down the eastbound lanes of Route 78 for an entire day.
What will it take for our political leaders to demand of the State Police that they especially focus on truck driving safety issues? In the last six months there have been 42 accidents on the 30-mile stretch of Route 78 between the Pennsylvania border and the Route 287 intersection.
When a tractor-trailer is involved in accident it is much more likely that someone gets killed ... as they did yesterday.
E. Patrick McGuire
Clinton