Verbout had been driving more than 75 miles per hour and her blood-alcohol level was above the state's legal limit, according to the Sussex County assistant prosecutor.
NEWTON -- Bail was lowered from $500,000 to $400,000 on Tuesday for a 50-year-old Sparta woman accused of killing a man in a drunken, wrong-way crash, according to a Sussex County assistant prosecutor.
Teresa Verbout faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter in the crash that killed Robert J. Hunter III, 22, from the Flanders section of Mount Olive, on Dec. 8 on Route 15 in Sparta.
Verbout's attorney, Anthony Picillo, had asked Judge Thomas Critchley Superior Court in Newton to reduce the bail that had been set at $500,000.
Critchley reduced the bail by $100,000 to $400,000 and also reimposed conditions that if Verbout comes up with the money for bail, she must forfeit her passport, forego drinking and be subject to a bail source hearing, said Assistant Prosecutor Seana Pappas.
Picillo could not be reached for comment on the bail reduction. He had asked the court to lower the bail to the $150,000 figure that was originally set when Verbout was arrested, according to an account in the New Jersey Herald.
On Thursday morning, Verbout was still being held at Sussex County's Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Facility, jail officials said.
Authorities have said Verbout was heading northbound on Route 15 south in her 2014 Jeep Cherokee at about 11:06 p.m. when she nearly struck a police vehicle.
The officer was able to avoid crashing into the Jeep, but was unable to prevent Verbout from striking Hunter's 1998 Toyota Corolla head-on, police said.
Hunter was pronounced dead at the scene, and Verbout suffered serious leg injuries in the crash, police said. She appeared in a wheelchair at her first court date last Thursday, when Picillo announced he would be seeking a bail reduction.
On the night of the accident, Verbout was driving in excess of 75 miles per hour and her blood-alcohol content was well above the state's limit of 0.08 percent, according to the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office.
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