⚠️ Douglas Smith gets nine years in prison for killing road worker Allen Adams in a Toms River work zone.
➡️ Adams’ family says Smith’s sentence amounts to another break for the driver who killed him.
🔴 A bipartisan bill would increase penalties for impaired drivers who kill someone in a highway construction zone.
TOMS RIVER — More than a year after hitting and killing a road construction worker in an overnight work zone, a drunk and drugged driver has gone to prison for nine years.
Douglas Smith, of Lakehurst, received his sentence on Friday in last year’s death of 50-year-old Allen Adams, in Toms River.
Smith pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide back at the end of August and at the time of his sentencing, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated…