Crime & Safety
Vehicle Fire on Route 206 Closes Road Briefly
Fuel leak may have caused pickup truck blaze, no injuries reported.
A vehicle fire closed Route 206 just of Cherry Hill Road for about 45 minutes on Wednesday.
Princeton Township Police reported receiving several 911 calls shortly after noon reporting a vehicle fire.
When police arrived at the scene, they found a Ford pickup truck belonging to Lakeside Towing of Trenton on fire.
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Police and Princeton firefighters put out the fire while traffic was detoured onto adjacent streets.
The preliminary cause of the fire was suspected to be a vehicle fuel leak. The driver, Waldemar Bonilla-Ruiz of Trenton, was taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton as a precaution.
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Also responding to the scene were Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad, Princeton Bureau of Fire Safety and Mercer County Fire Police.