A 47-year-old pharmaceutical executive from New Jersey has been charged with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide and assault by auto in connection with a high-speed, wrong-way crash that killed a former Olympic swimmer.

Brick Township resident Brian Baldari is accused of causing the death of 66-year-old Edwin Borja following a multi-vehicle collision in Lakewood in the early hours of March 7.

According to Ocean County prosecutors, Baldari was driving more than 100 mph in the wrong direction for roughly 2 miles when the crash occurred on Route 70 shortly before 6 a.m.

A subsequent investigation revealed that Baldari’s Cadillac CT5 Blackwing had been traveling westbound in the eastbound lane when it collided head-on with Borja’s Mazda CX5, setting off a sequence of events invo

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