Assault by Auto

June 15, 2009

Bergen County Drunk Driving Crash Sends New Jersey Postal Employee to Hospital

An allegedly drunk out-of-state driver caused a severe traffic accident in Closter, New Jersey, when he blew past a stop sign in his SUV and struck a sedan driven by a career postal employee, sending that man to the hospital with multiple injuries. The DWI traffic accident occurred today at West Street and Harrington Avenue where Kevin Greutert, 57, ended up being pinned in his vehicle until rescue workers could get him free and transported to Hackensack University Medical Center.

According to police reports, Patrick Martin Doyle, a resident of New York, was moving south on West Street in a white Nissan Pathfinder. As he approached the Harrington Avenue intersection, he apparently didn’t notice the stop sign and slammed into an Oldsmobile sedan being driven eastbound by Greutert, a resident of River Edge, NJ.

Greutert, a 30-year employee with the U.S. Postal Service, suffered a fractured pelvis and a collapsed lung, as well as a number of other minor injuries, according to Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor John Higgins, who also heads the county’s Fatal Accident Unit.

May 2, 2009

DWI Injury Accident Caused by New Jersey Man with Long History of Drunk Driving

by Jonathan F. Marshall

Talk about your repeat drunk driving offenders, East Rutherford resident, Shaun Campbell, will surely have a place in the record books. According to reports, the 39-year-old already had a dozen DWI convictions, and 78 license suspensions, prior to a recent accident when he allegedly caused a head-on crash with another driver and his four-year-old daughter at the intersection of South Street and Spring Valley Road in Morris Township.

Police say that Campbell was allegedly intoxicated when he ran his SUV into another vehicle in Morristown on Thursday, April 23. Immediately following the accident, the suspect was viewed running from the scene into nearby Loantaka Park in an effort to escape from police. All of this happened while Campbell’s license was suspended by the state.

Campbell was caught and initially charged with driving while intoxicated and obstruction of justice. However, authorities also hit him last Wednesday with a charge of fourth-degree assault-by-auto in connection with this most recent accident.

April 23, 2009

Intoxicated Teen Arrested for Assault by Auto in Jersey City

by Jonathan F. Marshall

A 19-year-old Bayonne man, already up on charges for driving while intoxicated, , has now been slapped with two counts of aggravated assault as a result of an accident last Saturday that left two young girls in critical condition, one of them paralyzed perhaps for life. The teen was arraigned Tuesday on DWI and assault charges in Jersey City.

This type of drunk driving tragedy is charged with emotion and considerable sadness, not only for the victims and their families, but also for the relatives of the young suspect. Although it appears that this is the teen’s first DWI arrest, the addition of aggravated assault charges makes it all the more important for him to have a qualified legal professional on his side. The attorneys at The Law Offices of John F. Marshall have experience defending cases just like this one.

The events leading up to Tuesday’s court appearance transpired, according to police, in the early morning hours of April 18. Witnesses stated that a 1996 Honda Passport allegedly driven by Michael Garbacki drove straight into a group of people including two young women. The Honda not only injured the girls, but also crashed into two other cars in a parking area beside Port Jersey Boulevard just before 2 a.m.