The crash limited travel for more than an hour on the road.
A man traveling with his dog early Wednesday morning was injured when the Volvo S80 the man was driving smashed into a bridge on Stewartsville Road in Franklin Township, Warren County.
The crash happened just before 5 a.m. on a curve about six-tenths of a mile from Route 57.
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The eastbound car struck the concrete bridge structure the leads to a metal railing on the right side of the road.
The man was taken for treatment to St. Luke's Hospital in Phillipsburg. The dog did not appear to be hurt and was cared for.
The road was reduced to a single lane for more than an hour as police set up an alternating pattern. It fully reopened at 6:10 a.m.
New Jersey State Police from the Washington barracks, the township fire and rescue operations and paramedics from Hunterdon Medical Center responded.
Freelance photographer Rich Maxwell contributed to this report.
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