Prison Sentence For Driver In Fatal Edison Crash

EDISON, NJ — An East Orange man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a motorcyclist he struck with his car, died in a hospital in June 2020, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Thomas Bryan of the Edison Police Department said.

Roland Q. Lyles, 31, was arrested on June 27, 2020 and charged with second-degree vehicular homicide and Driving While Intoxicated. On April 22, Lyles was sentenced by Judge Thomas Buck, to 10 years in state prison on one count of second-degree vehicular homicide subject to the No Early Release Act with three years of parole.

Upon his release, Lyles will be subject to a 25-year loss of license, Ciccone said.

On June 27, 2020, at approximately 2:19 a.m., officers responded to a crash involving a sedan and a motorcycle. An investigation by Det. Jonathan Berman of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and Captain Dominick Masi of the Edison Police Department found that Lyles who was driving a white Nissan Sentra was traveling northbound on Route 1 near Grandview Avenue at high speed when he struck a motorcycle driven by Richard Diaz, 51, of Brooklyn, New York, Ciccone said.

Diaz was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick following the crash. He died on June 30, 2020, from his injuries, authorities said.

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