The alleged drunk driver accused of fatally mowing down NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother last year is fighting to keep his confessions to cops the day of the accident hidden at trial.

Sean Higgins was in a Salem County Courtroom Wednesday as four of the cops who responded to the Aug. 29, 2024, crash recounted how he spilled his guts to them over the course of that evening.

New Jersey State Police Sgt. Kenenth Flanegan testified that he was on his way to the scene of the accident, in which the Columbus Blue Jackets player and his brother Matthew Gaudreau were allegedly struck by Higgins while riding bikes, when the sergeant came across Higgins outside of his car looking “frantic.”

“I hit them. I hit them,” Flanegan recounted Higgins saying to him.

The sergeant instructed Higgi

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