Retired police sergeant now facing criminal charges in fatal drunk driving crash, cops say
Updated Apr 07, 2021;
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A retired Union County police sergeant was indicted by a Somerset County Grand Jury on several new charges stemming from an alleged drunk driving crash last summer in Raritan Borough that left a 60-year-old woman dead, authorities announced Wednesday.
Kevin D. Betyeman, 56, of Bridgewater Township, was charged with reckless vehicular homicide, strict liability vehicular homicide and two charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, according to a joint statement from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office and the Raritan Borough Police Department.
The crash happened on Sept. 18, 2020 when Betyeman was driving a a 2018 Chevrolet Silverado east on Old York Road and fatally struck Celeste Andresen, 60, of San Manuel, Arizona, police said.