A Georgia truck driver has been charged with one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto in the traffic accident that critically injured Tracy Morgan and killed another man.
Morgan and three other passengers were hospitalized in the six-vehicle New Jersey crash that killed 63-year-old James McNair. Their luxury van flipped over, and Morgan and another passenger were helicoptered to a hospital.
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Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Col. Joseph R. Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, announced the charges against Kevin Roper, 35, of Jonesboro, Ga.