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The crash occurred around 2:14 p.m. on the southbound side of the western spur near mile marker 115, not far from the exit for Rt. 3.
Two southbound lanes and a northbound lane were closed as of about 5 p.m. The victim was not identified.
This is the third fatality on the Turnpike since Friday night, when a New York man plummeted 80 feet while trying to jump to another section of the highway in Newark, and a 26-year-old man was killed in a chain-reaction crash in Edison early Saturday.*
There have been at least five fatalities on the Turnpike since Oct. 19. On that date, a North Bergen man was killed in when the vehicle he was traveling in struck a guardrail in Burlington County.
The same day, at the other end of the Turnpike, a motorcyclist was killed instantly when he struck a guardrail and was thrown clear from his bike in Secaucus.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
*This story was updated to include an additional fatality in Edison
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