Wife Pleads Guilty In Crash That Killed Husband In Delran: Cops

A 38-year-old Mount Laurel woman has pleaded guilty to causing an accident that killed her husband in Delran in 2017, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced.

Tameka Lawson pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree vehicular homicide and a motor vehicle summons for driving while intoxicated in the death of 38-year-old Jamar Rentie, Coffina said.

Rentie died when their car struck a utility pole and flipped over in a wooded area in Delran in November 2017, Coffina said.

Rentie was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred at about 11:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, in the 100 block of Hartford Road. He was a front-seat passenger in a car being driven south on Hartford Road by Lawson.

They were both extricated from the car by the Delran Fire Department. Lawson was taken by the Delran Emergency Squad to Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro, where she was released after an evaluation.

She was initially charged after the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office received the results of toxicology tests conducted on blood drawn from Lawson following the crash. She was indicted earlier this year. She faces seven years in state prison at sentencing, which is scheduled for May 17.