TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A dump truck driver who pushed a car into a New Jersey lake, killing its driver, has been indicted by a grand jury.
The Mercer County grand jury charged 39-year-old Daniel Everett last week with one count of recklessly causing the death of 59-year-old James McLean last July.
Attorney James Gerrow says that Everett has not entered a plea, but that doctors are looking into neurological issues that he believes may have led to the accident.
Everett faces a maximum of 10 years in state prison and was free on $100,000 bail. He surrendered his license as a condition of his bail.
Witnesses told police Everett was driving his 80,000-pound erratically and at a high rate of speed when he hit McLean’s car while stopped at a red light and pushed it more than 200 feet into a lake.
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