Submitted by truck accident attorney, Jeffrey Hark After crashing into a guard rail on Interstate 295 Sunday night, a teenage girl stepped out of her car and was then killed when a tractor trailer struck her on the roadway. Lyric Smith, 18, of Burlington, N.J., was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt, north on I-295 in…
Submitted by New Jersey DWI Attorney, Jeffrey Hark You may have heard that you can be arrested and charged with DWI for sitting in your car with the keys in the ignition or the engine running regardless of whether you are actually driving. It is true that sitting in a vehicle with the engine running…
Submitted by New Jersey Truck Accident Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark DENVILLE, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – Police say a tire came off a pickup truck and triggered a multi-vehicle accident that claimed the life of a New Jersey man on Interstate 80. State Police say 77-year-old Sheldon Lefkowitz of Englewood Cliffs was heading west in Denville Thursday night when…
Submitted by New Jersey DWI Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark New Jersey boasts the lowest per capita rates of vehicle deaths caused by alcohol in the country. However there is still a push to make penalties harsher by Governor Chris Christie. Proposed Penalties for New Jersey DUI Offenses His proposals include widespread use of ignition interlock devices…
Submitted by bus accident attorney, Jeffrey Hark A 67-year-old man was struck and killed by a bus inside the Port Authority Bus terminal at the height of the rush hour, which caused extensive delays at the height of the commute home, Thursday night. The man, whose identity is being withheld until his family can be…
Submitted by truck crash lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. EDISON — A jackknifed tractor-trailer blocked all the outer lanes on the New Jersey Turnpike headed north Thursday afternoon, according to the state. 511nj.org reported that the accident occurred south of exit 10. Just before 6 p.m., the accident was causing at least four-mile delays, stretching south into…
An officer must smell the odor of the illegal substance when they are lawfully in a position from which they could smell the odor. The smell of burnt marijuana, by a trained and experienced officer, emanating from passenger compartment of a legally stopped motor vehicle creates probable cause to believe that a violation of…
Submitted by New Jersey truck crash lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. After her supervisor warned her that the lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike south had suddenly turned icy and told her to begin salting, a tractor-trailer sped past plow operator Elizabeth Crosby’s salt truck and jackknifed. That crash was followed quickly by several other accidents. Crosby’s…
Submitted by New Jersey motor vehicle lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking into opening up Wi-Fi space for the public, but it could impact a technology called vehicle-to-vehicle commutation (V2V) developed to prevent up to 80 percent of car crashes, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave. After more than a decade…
Submitted by truck crash attorney, Jeffrey Hark CARTERET, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Several people were injured Wednesday evening in a multi-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carteret. Three vehicles – a box truck, a car and a van were involved in the crash on the southbound turnpike between exits 11 and 12 around 6:30…