A Case of Fundamental Fairness–Refusal of Breath Test Sentences Subject to Step-Down Provision

May 12, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey DWI Attorney, Jeffrey Hark. This blog concerns a case that recently settled the unfairness of sentencing disparities between repeat offenders guilty of DWI (see N.J.S.A. 39:4-50) versus repeat offenders guilty of refusal to submit to a breath test under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a. State v. Taylor was decided May 11th by the Appellate…

Elderly NJ Jewish Man Dies in Accident on Maryland Highway

May 12, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Accident Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. An 89-year-old Orthodox Jewish man from Long Branch, New Jersey, died Sunday in a car accident on the Interstate-95 highway in Baltimore, Maryland State Police said. Sunday night, at around 11:50pm, police received a call of a motor vehicle collision on the I-95 northbound near…

Flipped truck on Turnpike ramp likely to cause delays

May 12, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey truck crash lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. https://www.criminalcivillawyer.com/ WOODBRIDGE – An overturned tractor trailer is partially blocking Exit 11 from the New Jersey Turnpike south to the Garden State Parkway. The truck accident prompted NJ Transit to alert bus commuters around 3:45 p.m. that they could face delays if their bus uses the…

Car Driver Hurt In Crash With School Bus

May 7, 2015 |

Posted by New Jersey School Bus Accident Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark A car ran a red light and hit a school bus Wednesday near Georgetown, injuring the car driver but no one on the bus, state police said. The crash involving an Indian River School District bus – carrying four students, ages 11 through 16 –…

Driver dies after tanker truck crashes, bursts into flames on New Jersey Turnpike in Woodbridge

May 6, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey Fuel Truck Accident Attorney, Jeffrey Hark WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (WABC) — State Police say the driver of a tanker trunk that crashed and caught fire on the New Jersey Turnpike Tuesday has died from his injuries. He has been identified as 58 year old Carlos Vinciguerra-Gomez from Elizabeth, NJ. The accident happened…

‘Did I hit something?’ drunken man asks after crashing through Lincoln Tunnel gate, police say

May 5, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Crash Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark WEEHAWKEN—When a Bronx man drunkenly sped through a closed portion of the Lincoln Tunnel on Friday, he didn’t realize he’d crashed through barriers in order to get into Manhattan, Port Authority police said. As smoke and antifreeze came off his heavily-damaged car, the driver asked police if…

Exigent Circumstances Required to Draw Blood without Consent or Warrant

May 4, 2015 |

On today’s date the New Jersey Supreme Court decided to apply the case of Missouri vs.  McNeely retroactively to all cases in their decision of State v. Adkins. If you recall Missouri vs McNeely is the US  Supreme Court case we wrote about 18 months ago. The issue was whether the police were required a…

Monday morning traffic: Accident on Route 287 in Hanover, delays on 80

May 4, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Accident Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. HANOVER TWP. — An accident on Route 287 southbound is causing minor delays for motorists near exit 39. Just before 7 a.m., officials closed down the right lane on 287 just south of exit 39 – N.J. 10, according to the New Jersey Department of…

Driver charged after car smashes into NJ Transit bus in Newark; several injured

May 2, 2015 |

Submitted by New Jersey Bus Accident Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark NEWARK, New Jersey — Authorities say a 27-year-old man has been charged after his car crashed into a New Jersey Transit bus in Newark and left the scene. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Andre Price was charged with aggravated assault by auto and leaving the…

Several injured after NJ Transit bus, car collide in Newark

May 1, 2015 |

Submitted by NJ bus accident lawyer, Jeffrey Hark.   NEWARK (WABC) — A New Jersey Transit bus and a car collided in Newark Friday, injuring seven people. The vehicles collided on Central Avenue and South Eighth Street just before 2 a.m. NJ Transit said the bus, the No. 34 from Newark to Bloomfield, at the…