Chaos and crashes as drivers dash for cash spilled by armoured truck on New Jersey highway
- Some drivers abandoned their cars to scoop up the blizzard of banknotes
Police in New Jersey on Thursday urged people who grabbed banknotes that spilled out of the back of an armoured truck to return the cash, no questions asked.
The cash spill led to two crashes as drivers “went a little bit crazy” to grab the swirling money.
The frenzy happened during morning rush hour in East Rutherford, near MetLife Stadium.
In online videos, a man in uniform is seen running through traffic trying to collect money, while others exited their cars to do the same.
“People went a little bit crazy when they saw the money,” said Danielle Shah, 29, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, who witnessed the incident from a bus she was riding into New York. “I mean, it seemed like the people who got out of the car – they just didn’t care. They parked their cars in the middle of the highway.”
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A Brink’s truck idled in the right shoulder with its lights flashing as the bills blew around the highway. One video showed the bashed-in front end of a sedan as traffic crawled through the blizzard of bills.
Police said the chaos led to two crashes, though it’s unclear whether anyone was injured.