A $1.5 million settlement was reached on Nov. 1 in a Middlesex County suit, Murphy v. Schildge, after a man ran a stop sign causing another car to roll several times and then strike a telephone pole.

On March 12, 2019 at 3:27 p.m., George Schildge ran a stop sign at the intersection of Holmes Mill Road and Arneytown Hornerstown Road in Upper Freehold Township. The plaintiff, Joseph J. Murphy, was traveling southbound in his 2010 Volvo on Holmes Mill when he was struck on the driver's side, causing his car to run off the road, turn over several times, and eject him from the vehicle before striking a telephone pole, according to Jeffery A. Rizika of Javerbaum, Wurgaft, Hicks, Kahn, Wikstrom & Sinins in Springfield.

Schildge was driving a black Audi A6 which was owned by defendant CRP Industries. Schildge told police he never looked to his right before proceeding through the intersection and admitted that the accident was his fault, Rizika said. A witness at the scene corroborated Murphy's version of events. The police investigation found that Schildge's failure to yield to Murphy's right of way was a contributing circumstance, Rizika noted. Schildge was issued a summons for careless driving and subsequently plead guilty to unsafe driving, Rizika said.