Prosecutor Wants Impaired Driver Locked Up For Head-On Crash

HOPEWELL, NJ — Mercer County Prosecutor's Office wants David Lamar, 22, of West Windsor locked up for his role in a head-on two-car crash this weekend that killed a Clark local and injured seven other people.

The prosecutor's office has filed a detention motion Wednesday against Lamar, who is currently being held in the Mercer County Correction Center in Hopewell. A detention hearing has been set for Monday, Dec. 10, at 1:30 p.m.

Lamar has been charged with seven counts of assault-by-auto after the investigation revealed that he operated a motor vehicle while impaired at 2:07 a.m. on Sunday when he struck another car, police said.

On Tuesday, a charge of vehicular homicide has been added against Lamar, according Mercer County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Casey A. DeBlasio.

• (Read more: Clark Man, 20, Dies After 8 Hospitalized In Crash: Prosecutor)

Lamar was traveling southbound at 1817 Pennington Road in Ewing Township in a black 2018 Kia Optima when his vehicle crossed over the double yellow lines, striking a 2007 Dodge Charger that was traveling northbound. There were a total of two people in the Kia and six people in the Dodge.

The crash happened near The College of New Jersey.

Overall, eight people were hospitalized in the crash and six were listed as being in critical condition Injuries in the crash included broken bones, a ruptured bladder and a brain injury, according to police.

Michael Sot, 20, of Clark and TCNJ student math major was pronounced dead on Tuesday. (See Related: Clark 'Designated Driver' Mourned After Crash In Awful Irony)

(Image via Mercer County Prosecutor's Office: David Lamar, 22, of West Windsor)

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