IMPAIRED DRIVING

DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH: CRASH INVESTIGATIONS UNIT COMMITTED TO PRESERVING SAFETY ON ATLANTIC COUNTY ROADWAYS
MAYS LANDING— Distracted Driving Awareness Month is a very important time of year for the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Crash Investigations Unit and Atlantic County Assistant Prosecutor Kathleen Robinson. From 2018-2022, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Crash Investigations Unit has investigated 156 motor vehicle crashes that resulted in a total of 166 fatalities. According to …

EHT WOMAN SENTENCED TO 21 YRS IN PRISON FOR CRASH THAT KILLED MOTHER & INFANT SON
MAYS LANDING- An Egg Harbor Township woman has been sentenced on Aggravated Manslaughter charges in connection to a motor vehicle collision that killed a mother and her infant son in 2019, Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill announced. Nancy Cavanaugh, 68, was sentenced on January 10, 2022, by Judge Bernard DeLury to 21 years in …

PLEASANTVILLE WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER IN 2018 FATAL CRASH
MAYS LANDING- A Pleasantville woman who was determined to be under the influence of marijuana and who was also speeding has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in connection to a motor vehicle accident that killed a Galloway Township woman in December 2018, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced. “Throughout the process of the legalization of …

NATIONAL DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVING PREVENTION MONTH: ATLANTIC COUNTY SEES INCREASE IN FATAL CRASHES IN 2020
MAYS LANDING- December is National Drunk & Drugged Driving Prevention Month, or National 3D Prevention Month and Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner would like National 3D Prevention Month to serve as a reminder to never drive impaired. Atlantic County has seen an increase in the number of motor vehicle crashes in 2020 over 2019. …