A New Jersey man was sentenced to 3-23 months at the county jail after pleading guilty to a hit-and-run of a United States Postal Service truck in Sharon Hill last year.

Hamlet Espinal, 23, Pennsauken, entered an open guilty plea before Common Pleas Court Judge Dominic Pileggi to one count of accidents involving death or personal injury, a third-degree felony.

Espinal told the judge he did not know he hit the truck. He said he was just leaving work and was tired, and “kind of fell asleep” while driving, but believed he had struck a telephone pole that took off his side mirror.

The strike occurred about 2 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the corner of Elmwood and Clifton avenues, and threw the mail carrier from the truck.

He was transported to a hospital and underwent numerous tests.

Espinal left th

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