A man accused of driving drunk the wrong way on the New Jersey Turnpike and killing four bochurim in a head-on collision has been hit with a 15-count indictment, with prosecutors adding weapons charges after authorities discovered an AR-style rifle fitted with a suppressor and hollow-point bullets in his truck.
Christopher Neff, 41, of Westminster, Colorado, was indicted on charges including aggravated manslaughter and death by auto for the October 19 crash that killed Yaakov Kilberg z”l, 19, of Lakewood, and his three 18-year-old passengers — Aharon Nosson Lebovits z”l, and Shlomo Abba Cohen z”l, both of Lakewood, and Chaim Simcha Grossman z”l of Fallsburg, New York. He is scheduled to be arraigned in early April.
According to prosecutors, Neff spent roughly two hours drinking at the Turnpike Inn near the Delaware Memorial Bridge in Carney’s Point before driving to a nearby gas station and then entering the Turnpike heading north in the southbound lanes. Within minutes, his white Dodge Ram pickup slammed head-on into the black Mazda CX-5 carrying the four boys.
The force of the collision sent the SUV careening into an oncoming tractor-trailer, compounding the devastation. All four teens were niftar at the scene. The tractor-trailer’s driver, a 29-year-old man from Nova Scotia, was uninjured.
Neff’s blood alcohol content registered at 0.22% — nearly three times the legal limit.
What does that mean? How many years in jail? Life???? Us tax payers have to support him? For what? Get rid of him.
Did you have the same feelings when the roles were reversed and someone in our community was the driver…
And let everyone wear reflectors at night, as many do. That is something that people CAN – and SHOULD – do.