New Jersey State Police (NJSP)

By Sam Barron From Daily Voice

A 72-year-old Matawan man was killed in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Linden on Thursday evening, Oct. 23, authorities said.

At 8:37 p.m., a Mercedes driven by Adam Paduszynski was traveling south on the Turnpike when the right side of his vehicle crashed into the front of a Freightliner, driven by a 22-year-old Passaic man, Jeffrey Lebron, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police said.

Paduszynski was pronounced dead at the scene, Lebron said. 

The crash remains under investigation, Lebron said.