19-year-old killed when car hits parked truck on N.J. highway

A 19-year-old driver was killed on Interstate 80 in Morris County Sunday morning when his car struck the back of a box truck parked on the shoulder, police said.
Cameron Ray, of Mount Olive, was headed west at 5:40 a.m., when his vehicle drove onto the shoulder of the highway near milepost 38.2 in Denville, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Charles Marchan said in an email Sunday afternoon.
Ray lived in the Flanders section of the township, about 15 miles west of where the crash occurred.
The driver of the box truck suffered minor injuries in the crash, which remained under investigation on Sunday, Marchan. said.
It was one of at least three fatal crashes over the weekend involving cars that police said veered off the roadway, including one that killed two teens on Saturday night.
In that crash, an 18-year-old driver his and passenger, also 18 and also from Glassboro, died when their car ran off State Highway 55 into trees in Mantua.
In Camden County on Saturday afternoon, a 45-year-old Bellmawr woman died after her car ran off the Black Horse Pike in Gloucester Township, struck a sign support and a tree, then caught fire.
Those two crashes were also being investigated by the State Police on Sunday.
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