Trucker laughed after causing fatal N.J. Turnpike crash. Now he’s headed to prison.

A tractor trailer driver who was accused of causing a fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike and then laughing as he drove off was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday.

Joseph M. Nyandwaro, 41, of Pearland, Texas, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless vehicular homicide in December.

Nyandwaro was driving north in Woolwich Township on June 22, 2025, when investigators said he rammed a tractor-trailer driven by Osman Aden, 40, of Minnesota…

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