A truck driver pleaded not guilty Monday to causing the death of a Hudson County man in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carlstadt, The Record reported.
Henry Flores (New Jersey State Police) HACKENSACK -- A truck driver pleaded not guilty Monday to causing the death of a Hudson County man in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carlstadt, The Record reported.
New Jersey State Police said Henry G. Flores, 56, was using his cell phone when he failed to slow his tractor-trailer down, leading to a deadly chain-reaction crash on June 9, 2014.
The 1996 Kensworth truck Flores was driving in the left lane slammed into the back of a Chevy Malibu before continuing into five other cars, police said. One of them was a Saturn driven by Jeffrey Humphrey, 43, of Harrison, who died at the scene when his car was forced into a highway barrier.
Several others were hurt, police said.
Flores is free on $50,000 bail, according to jail records.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 1.
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