Man Gets 7 Years In DUI Crash That Killed Brick Woman

A Point Pleasant man who had a previous impaired driving conviction has been sentenced to seven years in prison for vehicular homicide in a 2013 crash that killed a Brick Township woman where he was driving under the influence, according to a report.

Robert P. Cook, 31, was under the influence of six different drugs when his car hit the car driven by Jane C. Eager, 80, of Brick, head-on on March 8, 2013, according to a report on the sentencing in the Asbury Park Press.

Cook had an interlock device in his car from the previous conviction for driving while intoxicated, but at the time of the crash that hit killed Eager, he had marijuana, anti-anxiety medication, a prescription painkiller, amphetamines and morphine in his system, and said he had injected heroin as well, according to the report.

Two of the drugs in his system -- oxycodone, a painkiller, and Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug -- were prescribed to him as a result of injuries he suffered in a car accident about five years earlier, Cook’s attorney, Edward Dimon, said at Cook’s plea hearing.

Cook said during the plea hearing that he had no recollection of the accident that killed Eager, but he acknowledged his recklessness in driving while under the influence of the drugs caused her death.

Read more about the sentencing hearing here.