Video: United Airlines Flight Hits Highway Streetlight, Collides With Truck During Landing at Newark Airport

A United Airlines flight struck a streetlight pole and a running truck later during its landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Sunday, May 4. The incident occurred when the flight from Venice in Italy was going more than 160 miles an hour when it crossed the New Jersey Turnpike, injuring the truck driver outside the airport.

According to CNN, quoting  New Jersey State Police spokesman SFC Charles Marchan, a tyre from the United Airlines Boeing 767 plane's landing gear and the underside of the plane “collided with a pole and a tractor-trailer. The pole then fell on a jeep on the highway.

“The driver of the tractor-trailer sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to an area hospital,” said Marchan, reported CNN.

🇺🇸 A United Airlines Boeing 767 flying in from Venice just clipped a bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on final approach to Newark.

The landing gear hit the driver's-side window. The plane also took out a light pole. 221 passengers on board.

The driver walked away with… pic.twitter.com/pda8JMLdyD

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 3, 2026

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A truck's dashcam captures the incident, showing the truck's driver travelling along the highway as the sound of the plane's engines grows louder, and suddenly the truck shakes and is destroyed.

The truck driver, identified as Warren Boardley from Baltimore, was travelling north on the turnpike to deliver bread products to a Newark airport depot when the incident occurred, according to CNN, which quoted Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of transportation for Schmidt Bakery and co-owner of H&S Family of Bakeries.