Pierre Innocent, 54, of Orange was charged on May 6 with second-degree reckless vehicular homicide under Eileen's Law in the July 2025 death of Daniel "DJ" Ortiz, 24, who was loading a disabled Honda on the I-287 South shoulder for Ron and Sons Towing when he was struck by a 2019 Jeep Cherokee, according to Parsippany Focus and the Morris County Prosecutor. The statute allows a driver's failure to maintain a lane to support a reckless-driving inference; Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said "slowing down and moving over when approaching emergency vehicles on the roadway can save lives."
Operator takeaway
Court updates on Tower Down cases drive the highest engagement in the industry, and this is the first time Eileen's Law is being tested in a roadside-worker death. The civil-only Move Over enforcement model just moved to criminal court. Print this and post it in dispatch.