NEW YORK, NY : A drunken wrong-way crash that killed a fellow officer on April, Monday 17th 2017

A prosecutor at the opening of the New York trial for a former New Jersey police officer accused of a drunken wrong-way crash that killed a fellow officer and another man has said it was his extreme intoxication that led him to slam into a truck.

Assistant District Attorney Frank Prospero told jurors on Monday that former Linden officer Pedro Abad went the wrong way on a street at 73 miles per hour (117 kilometers per hour) because of how much he had drunk.

“It was nothing but his intoxication that caused him to go the wrong way on the West Shore Expressway at a high rate of speed,” Prospero said. “This was a horrific crash with devastating injuries and the loss of the lives of two young men.”

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Former officer was drunk, speeding before crash