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The family of Jalen Davis sued three Morristown bars for their alleged role in a drunk-driving accident that killed her in 2019. (Courtesy of Leonard Legal Group)
MORRISTOWN, NJ An alcohol-induced accident took a father of four, an aspiring hip-hop artist and an advocate for animals. Two of the victim s families have filed wrongful-death lawsuits against Morristown bars for allegedly over-serving the man who caused the 2019 crash.
The lawsuits accuse Iron Bar, Revolution Social Brew House and Horseshoe Tavern of over-serving a customer before he sparked a wrong-way crash that killed three.
Miguel Botero caused the fiery crash while driving on I-80 during the early-morning hours of Oct. 18, 2019, in Parsippany, according to the Morris County Prosecutor s Office. His blood alcohol content totaled 0.229 nearly triple New Jersey s legal limit of 0.08.
Bartenders kept serving intoxicated N.J. man who later killed 3 people in Route 80 crash, lawsuit says
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Miguel Botero was the driver in a fatal crash in October 2019 on Route 80 in Morris County. Photo is from his first court appearance.Keith A. Muccilli | For NJ Advance Media
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Workers at three Morristown bars are accused in a wrongful death lawsuit of over-serving a man who later drove drunk on Route 80, killing three people.
The family of Ronald Francois, one of those killed in the crash two years ago, claims bartenders at Iron Bar, Revolution Social Brew House and Horseshoe Tavern kept serving Miguel A. Botero even though he was visibly drunk.
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A trio of Morris County bars have been accused of overserving alcohol to the driver involved in a triple-fatal crash on Route 80 in 2019, a new report says.
Iron Bar, Revolution Social Brew House and Horseshoe Tavern in Morristown are accused of “employing incompetent and inadequately trained bartenders” in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ronald Francois, one of three victims in the Oct. 18, 2019 crash in Parsippany,
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Miguel Botero, 29, was driving westbound on the eastbound side on the highway when his Jeep Cherokee struck another vehicle, killing
Francois, 28, of Newark, Jalen Davis, 20, of Stanhope, and Julia Wells, 20, of Mine Hill, the Morris County Prosecutor s Office said at the time.