Nakoma Jones, 38, was driving a 2009 Lincoln MKS east about 3:38 a.m. when she crossed into on-coming traffic near Mannino Park Drive, crashing into a 2011 Sonata, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief William Volkert of the Old Bridge Police Department.
Nakoma Jones, 38, was driving drunk in the crash that killed Gustavo Rodriguez, 30, Sunday in Old Bridge, authorities said. OLD BRIDGE - A Neptune woman was charged with causing a drunken-driving accident Sunday in Old Bridge that killed her passenger and injured three others, authorities said.
Nakoma Jones, 38, was driving a 2009 Lincoln MKS east about 3:38 a.m. when she crossed into oncoming traffic near Mannino Park Drive and collided with a 2011 Sonata, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief William Volkert of the Old Bridge Police Department.
Gustavo Rodriguez, 30, of Neptune, died at the scene. Rodriguez was a rear-seat passenger in Jones' car, authorities said.
"Nakoma Jones was charged with death by auto and assault by auto after police determined she was intoxicated when she crossed into on-coming traffic and struck another vehicle head on," the prosecutor and police chief said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
The prosecutor said three people were injured:
- Jones is being treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Her bail is $160,000.
- Her front-seat passenger, a 36-year-old woman from Asbury Park, was treated at the hospital and released.
- The 19-year-old driver of the Sonata that was struck remains hospitalized at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She was identified as a Cedar Grove resident.
Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Old Bridge police at (732) 721-5600, or the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office at (732) 745-3254.
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