Ernest Feist

PERTH AMBOY — It was determined that Ernest Feist (age 54) was intoxicated and speeding on June 6, 2013 in the late afternoon when the vehicle he was driving crashed into two other vehicles. The collision occurred in Monroe Township on Hoffman Station Road near the Hoffman Road intersection.

Feist’s Mercedes crossed over a double yellow line striking a vehicle driven by a woman in her late fifties from Manalapan who is listed in critical condition at RWJ hospital. Then Feist’s vehicle hit another vehicle that was driven by a woman in her early thirties also from Manalapan. She was treated and released from an area hospital.

In Feist’s vehicle was one passenger; a man in his early thirties from Pennsylvania who is listed in stable condition at Princeton Medical Center.

Feist was charged while being treated for his injuries at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

The accounts against Feist were for two of aggravated assault and one of assault by auto for causing the collision.

In his capacity in Perth Amboy Feist was serving as the City Engineer.

The investigation is still ongoing.