A $6 Million global settlement was reached on Dec. 7, 2018, in three Middlesex County suits stemming from a motor vehicle accident that killed three people. The caption is Estate of Kleiman v. Estate of Fairchild.

According to lawyers involved in the litigation, William Fairchild was driving south on Route 9 in Old Bridge on March 5, 2016, when his Ford Escape crossed the grassy center median and collided head on with a northbound Honda Accord driven by Hope Wells, 37. Fairchild, Wells and a passenger in Wells’ vehicle, Charles Kleiman, 62, were all killed in the crash. Kleiman’s mother, Lillian Kleiman, 86, and his wife, Dorothy Slattery, 62, who were also in the Honda, were seriously injured.