Posted On: November 25, 2005 by Richard Console

$800,000 in Fatal Drunk Driving Crash

Justin King, 28 of Piscataway had been drinking at the Italian American Progressive League in South Plainfield when he crossed the center line and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. He and the private club he came from agreed to pay an $800,000 settlement.

The passenger of the other vehicle, Ronald Hurst, died a month later from the injuries he sustained in the crash. His driver, Mary Ludlow suffered wrist, knee and ankle fractures. King’s passenger, Shelley Kurilew, fractured her pelvis.
- Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal