A five-mile-long traffic backup is lasting into the afternoon hours following a fatal accident in the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway Tuesday morning.
By 12:30 p.m., the state Department of Transportation was reporting a 5-mile backup in the northbound lanes extending from mile marker 92.5 in Brick, where the crash occurred, to mile marker 88 near Route 70 at the Brick-Lakewood border.
The right lane is blocked south of the accident site, officials said.
State Police confirmed one person died after a vehicle crashed into the woods just after 8:30 a.m. Police have not released the name of the person who died, nor additional details on what may have caused the crash.
Patch will update the story when new information becomes available.
