{"id":27713,"date":"2025-11-04T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:37:11","slug":"brooklyn-woman-charged-with-vehicle-homicide-over-fatal-crash-in-morris-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27713\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn woman charged with vehicle homicide over fatal crash in Morris County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Brooklyn woman was arrested and charged with vehicle homicide relating to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/story\/news\/local\/morris-county\/2025\/09\/01\/chester-township-nj-car-crash-1-dead-2-injured\/85927267007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:car crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">car crash<\/a> that happened in Chester Township on Aug. 31 that left one dead, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ana-Maria Ciofu, 26, was charged with second-degree vehicle homicide and disorderly persons assault by auto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 5:51 p.m. on Aug. 31, police were dispatched to a crash on Route 206 by the Lamerson Road and Fox Chase Road intersection. Police said a 2025 Lexus collided with a 2013 Toyota. The driver of the Toyota later died. There was a passenger in the Lexus that sustained a bodily injury from the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ciofu is accused of &#8220;driving at an excessive rate of speed at the time of the crash,&#8221; the Morris County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office said in a release, which did not state the name of the victim who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The defendant was released and has a pre-indictment conference on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Morristown Daily Record: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/brooklyn-woman-charged-fatal-crash-chester-township-nj\/87075101007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn woman charged over fatal crash in Chester Township NJ;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn woman charged over fatal crash in Chester Township NJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn woman was arrested and charged with vehicle homicide relating to a car crash that happened in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[17442,98,100,99,2227,17444,17445,9,24,63,13659,17443],"class_list":["post-27713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ana-maria-ciofu","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-car-crash","tag-chester-township","tag-disorderly-persons","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-toyota","tag-vehicle-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}