A grand jury has indicted a Salem County man on charges that he was hauling farm equipment while intoxicated when he struck and killed a man riding an electric bicycle.

Steven J. Petronglo , 45, was at the wheel of a pickup truck that was pulling a trailer containing a tractor with a 15-foot-wide seeder attachment on the night of April 23, police said. He is accused of hitting the cyclist on Willow Grove Road in Pittsgrove.

James Goode, 61, of Vineland, was riding the bike westbound on the eastbound side of the road and Petronglo’s eastbound truck was “unable to avoid the pedalcyclist,” according to New Jersey State Police.

Goode was struck by the right side of the seeder attachment on the tractor and died of his injuries, police said in April. At the time, police said they didn’t know

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