Crime & Safety

Ferrari Drivers Indicted In Fatal 2012 Bergen County Crash: Report

Incident occurred on Mother's Day at MetLife Stadium where Kinnelon's Stephen Lenge was riding his motorcycle.

KINNELON, N.J. – Two Ferrari-driving men have been indicted, again, in a fatal motor vehicle crash that killed a Kinnelon father in 2012.

A Bergen County grand jury indicted Joseph Ferretti, of Dumont, and Joseph Meyer, of Florida, on charges of vehicular homicide and aggravated manslaughter after police said they were driving at a high rate of speed when Meyer crashed into Stephen Lenge, 56, on Mother’s Day 2012, Northjersey.com reported.

The incident occurred at MetLife Stadium just before 8 a.m. when Lenge, riding his motorcycle, was preparing to attend a music festival. The father of two owned Things From England in Cliffside Park.

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Meyer and Ferretti worked for Gotham Dream Cars of Englewood, which charges drivers $100 to operate high-end sports cars around a track at the East Rutherford stadium, nj.com reported.

The original indictment from 2014 only charged the drivers with aggravated manslaughter, which carries a sentence of 10 to 30 years in prison. The original indictment was tossed after a judge ruled a an assistant prosecutor answered a question that should have been explained by a traffic report, the report said.

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Pictured: Stephen Lenge, as pictured in his 2012 obituary on Patch.com.

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