Bridgewater Man Charged in Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash

A Bridgewater resident was arrested Thursday in a collision on East Main Street Tuesday that killed another Bridgewater resident.

Sean Gieda, 28, of Holman Court, turned himself in to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Thursday at 4 p.m., and was charged with second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident.

According to Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano, the Bridgewater Township Police Department received a call that a bicyclist had been struck Tuesday morning just before 6 a.m.

Second Street resident , 54, was found dead, lying on the front lawn of an East Main Street house, Soriano said.

According to Soriano, Navarro was struck in the back by a motor vehicle while he was bicycling west on the road between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. The driver had left the scene, but police found a damaged red plastic trailer cover that appeared to belong to a 1991-1995 Mercedes Benz, model 190E, Soriano said.

Police advised the public of the vehicle they were searching for and the department received information Thursday that a vehicle matching the description was found on Holman Court, Soriano said.

Soriano said officers found a 1992 red Mercedes Benz, model 190E in a parking lot there. The vehicle had sustained damage to its front passenger side headlight assembly, he said, and a plastic garbage bag was taped to the passenger side front windshield.

Soriano said the vehicle is registered to Gieda.

Bail for Gieda was set at $50,000, with 10 percent to apply.

Anyone with information about the hit-and-run incident is asked to contact the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office at 908-231-7100 or the Bridgewater Township Police Department at 908-722-4111.