Verified incident record · 2026-08-11

68-year-old woman hospitalized after dog attack in Woodbridge, New Jersey

Woodbridge Police-confirmed reporting says a pit bull broke free from a teenage handler and attacked a woman in Colonia; follow-up reporting says she required overnight hospitalization and specialist care.

Serious / hospitalized overnight; follow-up reported facial, neck and hand wounds and planned plastic-surgery evaluationBreed: Pit bullWoodbridge, NJ

Date2026-08-11 · About 8:45–8:46 a.m. EDT

LocationTemple Way in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township; BiteDB uses neighborhood/city-level public geography rather than a residential address

Victim(s)68-year-old woman

Dogs involved1 dog reported

Injury severitySerious / hospitalized overnight; follow-up reported facial, neck and hand wounds and planned plastic-surgery evaluation

Breed attributionPit bullWoodbridge Police were quoted by Patch describing the attacking dog as a pit bull; BiteDB records that as police-attributed media reporting rather than independent visual inference.

What the record currently shows

Incident summary

Woodbridge Police told Patch that a pit bull broke free from a teenage handler and attacked a 68-year-old woman walking on Temple Way in the Colonia section on Aug. 11. Police said the woman was bitten on the face and hands and was taken to a hospital. Follow-up reporting from the victim’s family and an eyewitness said she was hospitalized overnight, had wounds to the cheek, neck and hand, and was referred for plastic-surgery and possible nerve-damage evaluation. Woodbridge Animal Control completed a bite report and the dog was placed in a mandatory 10-day quarantine.

Legal-status note

Woodbridge Animal Control completed a bite report and the dog was placed in a mandatory 10-day quarantine at Associated Humane Society in Newark, according to township-attributed reporting. The dog was not to be returned to the adopting household. No criminal charges had been filed against the owners in the Aug. 18–19 follow-up reviewed by BiteDB.

Media & source coverage

Video, reporting and source material

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Source provenance

Primary record used by BiteDB

Colonia Woman Recovering After She Was Attacked By A Pit BullLocal reporting with Woodbridge Police/Township attribution plus family and eyewitness follow-up · Published 2026-08-18 · Accessed 2026-08-30

Patch attributed the incident confirmation, time, location and pit-bull identification to Woodbridge Police and quarantine/placement details to Woodbridge Township officials. A follow-up included family and eyewitness descriptions of the woman’s injuries and recovery.

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Data-quality notes

What BiteDB does not infer

Breed is recorded only at the provenance level shown above. Missing injury details, dog history, ownership facts or circumstances remain unknown unless a reliable source establishes them. This record may be updated as police, animal-control, medical, court or follow-up reporting becomes available.