Plainsboro Man Charged with Aggravated Manslaughter for Saturday Crash

Authorities have charged a Plainsboro man with causing a motor vehicle crash that led to the death of one of the passengers on Dey Road in South Brunswick early Saturday morning. 

Rohit Maddineni, 25, was charged with aggravated manslaughter after the crash, which killed Pavan Gottumukala, 25, of Edison. 

South Brunswick Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Ryan said Maddineni, Gottumukala, and a 25-year-old female . 

Authorities said Maddineni was drinking before he drove Gottumukala and the 25-year-old female back towards Plainsboro at about 3:40 a.m. Maddineni lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a utility pole along Dey Road, according to police.

Gottumukala, who was sitting in the backseat, was ejected from the car. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he was pronounced dead.

Maddineni and the unidentified female passenger were also transported to the hospital and received treatment for minor injuries. 

Dey Road was shut down in both directions from Route 130 to the Plainsboro border for about four hours as a result of the investigation, police said. It was again shut down around noon as PSE&G made repairs to the utility pole.

Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Investigator Scott Crocco of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-4471, or Officer Gene Rickle of the South Brunswick Police Department at (732) 329-4000, ext. 7459.