Truck driver heads to NJ prison for causing deadly Turnpike crash

🚛 A Texas truck driver admitted ramming another tractor trailer, killing a man in Woolwich Township.

⚖️ Gloucester County judge sentences Joseph Nyandwaro for vehicular homicide.

🎥 Video from the truck allegedly shows the crash — and the driver laughing afterward.

A truck driver from Texas has been sentenced to prison after admitting to ramming another tractor trailer along the New Jersey Turnpike, causing that driver’s death.

Joseph Nyandwaro received a six-year term from Gloucester County Superior Court Judge William Ziegler on Friday.

Six-year sentence in Gloucester County vehicular homicide case

In December, Nyandwaro, of Perland, Texas, pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular homicide.

The 41-year-old Nyandwaro was driving a tractor trailer northbound along the Turnpike in Woolwich Township on June 22, 2025 when the truck rammed into a second tractor trailer…

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