The estate of a man killed by a police vehicle while standing outside his own vehicle following a collision on Interstate 287 settled a Morris County lawsuit against the state and another motorist, Estate of Sarrecchia v. State of New Jersey, for $1.8 million on Nov. 13.

In the early morning hours of May 18, 2014, Salvatore Sarrecchia, 47, of Sparta, was driving northbound on I-287 in Bedminster in his SUV, with his wife Nicole in the passenger’s seat, when he struck a disabled vehicle that had been abandoned in the right lane. Sarrecchia swerved over to the left lane, where he stopped his SUV and attempted to assist Nicole in getting out. As he stood at the rear of his SUV, with its flashers activated, an official police vehicle driven by Sgt. Lawrence Lynn, a police officer for the state Department of Health and Human Services, approached in the left lane with its emergency lights activated, and struck Sarrecchia, who died at the scene, said the estate’s lawyer, Kenneth Elwood of Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari in Chatham.