
Angry over fireworks, police say Lebanon, NJ neighbor ran over woman
A 62-year-old man was reportedly angry over fireworks in his neighborhood when he drove his Jeep off a road and hit a 24-year-old woman, seriously hurting her, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office.
Kevin Stephenson, of Lebanon, has been charged with second-degree aggravated assault, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, fourth-degree assault by auto, fourth-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and other motor vehicle violations.
On Saturday night after 9:30, police received a call about fireworks in the area of Old Mountain Road and Deer Path Road, which is near the Round Valley Reservoir.
The caller said that her husband was heading to the area to confront whoever was setting them off.
Witnesses said a white Jeep Wrangler with large tires and two people inside veered onto the property of 4 Deer Path Road, hitting a woman who was behind a fireworks display, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
She was flown to Morristown Medical Center with a head injury.
Stephenson was identified as a local resident who owned a similar Jeep and officers went to his home.
There, they found his Jeep, with front end damage, parked in the garage and Stephenson admitted to police that he had driven off the road into the field where fireworks had been set off.
The strike was recorded on cell phone video, according to a criminal complaint, which also said that Stephenson did not know the woman who was hit.
The intersection of Deer Path Road and Old Mountain Road is in Clinton Township.
Stephenson has been in Warren County Jail, pending his first court appearance.
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