Farm Tractor Kills Wrong-Way Warren County Motorcyclist

A wrong-way Phillipsburg motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the hospital after being struck by a farm tractor in Washington, reports say.

John Deere farm tractor
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Valerie Musson

05/14/2020 12:03 p.m.

A motorcyclist traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Route 57 was struck by a John Deere tractor towing a P-7000 corn planter just before 7 p.m. May 13 in Washington Borough, WRNJ reports.

The tractor was headed westbound on Route 57.

The motorcyclist, a 55-year-old man from Phillipsburg, transported to Hunterdon Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The crash remains under investigation.

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