Driver Was Drunk When He Hit, Killed Off-Duty NJ Corrections Officer: Report

VINELAND, NJ — A Pennsylvania man was drunk and driving on a suspended license when he hit a stopped car and killed an off-duty juvenile corrections officer, a Cumberland County grand jury charged.

The grand jury indicted Trevor M. Annunziata, 28, with vehicular homicide and unlicensed driver involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident, as NJ.com reports. Annunziata, 28, is from Lansdale.

Police say Annunziata was driving northbound on Route 55 in Vineland last August when he drove onto the right shoulder and hit the back of a car which was stopped there, New Jersey Advance Media reported.

Annunziata's blood alcohol level was 0.088 percent, according to NJ.com.

The man inside the car, 25-year-old Joshua Beardsworth of Elmer, suffered fatal injuries, the report said.

Beardsworth, who left behind a wife and two children, was a corrections officer for Camden County's Blackwood Juvenile Detention Center, according to his obituary. He was also a member of the Boilermakers Union Local 13.