Toms River Mother Charged In DWI Crash Had 6-Year-Old In Car, Police Say

A Toms River woman is accused of driving drunk with her child in the car and causing an accident in the process, police say.

Jennifer Hyman, 37, of Heritage Way, has been charged with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and second-degree child neglect as a result of the crash that happened about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, said Ralph Stocco, spokesman for the Toms River Police Department.

Hyman was northbound on Cedar Grove Road in a 2003 Jeep on Tuesday evening when she turned right onto Bay Avenue and hit a 2006 Toyota that was in the opposite lane of Bay Avenue and traveling west, Stocco said. The Toyota’s driver, as 28-year-old Toms River resident, was taken to Community Medical Center, Toms River, for treatment of minor injuries, he said.

Hyman, who had her 6-year-old son in the Jeep at the time of the crash, was arrested on the DUI charge, Stocco said.
As she was being taken into custody, however, she resisted the arresting officer’s efforts to place her in handcuffs and tried to kick him, Stocco said.

Sgt. Ed Mooney and Officer William Hutton charged Hyman with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest, second-degree child neglect for driving while intoxicated and having her son in the Jeep at the time of the crash, and several motor vehicle violations, Stocco said.

Bail was set at $50,000, which she has since posted, according to Ocean County Jail records.

(Photo courtesy Toms River Police Department)