A driver spotted a bloodied woman screaming for help inside the cab of a tractor-trailer on a Jersey highway Wednesday in a disturbing scene straight out of a horror movie.
Officers are now searching for the woman who the witness said was bleeding from her face inside a white semi-truck pulled over to the side of Route 130 near Dayton Toyota, South Brunswick Police said.
The passerby said the woman called out for help before the male truck driver pulled her back into the cab and drove away around 2 pm The truck turned off Route 130 at the Ridge Road exit.
The woman is believed to be white or Hispanic and in her 20s. According to the witness description, she has long brown hair and was wearing a brown flannel shirt.
The driver is a white older man who is bald and has a white beard. He was wearing a blue shirt at the time of the incident, police said.
Surveillance video released by police shows the truck briefly stopped along Route 130 before it drives off.
Anyone with information regarding the truck, woman or driver was asked to call South Brunswick Police at 732-329-4646.
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