Long Island Man Involved In Wrong-Way New Jersey Turnpike Crash

A Long Island man was injured a wrong-way crash that killed another man on the New Jersey Turnpike Monday morning, police said.

According to New Jersey State Police, 57-year-old Steven Hom, of Scarsdale, was driving south in the northbound lanes of the turnpike when his Honda Civic hit a box truck traveling north in Woodbridge at 11:28 a.m., police said.

Hom was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:44 a.m. The driver of the truck, 55-year-old Anthony Scalfano, of Oakdale, suffered minor injuries.

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Reporting by Tom Davis