NJ woman guilty in first texting while driving trial

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Texting-and-driving homicide trial: Keansburg woman found guilty

Kathleen HopkinsUpdated 9:54 p.m. ET Nov. 22, 2019

Alexandra Mansonet breaks down as she describes the crash that led to a pedestrian fatality. This is believed to be New Jersey's first texting-while-driving vehicular homicide trial. Thomas P. Costello, Asbury Park Press

FREEHOLD - A Monmouth County jury on Friday found a Keansburg woman guilty in New Jersey’s first texting-while-driving vehicular homicide trial.

After about two days of deliberations, the jury foreman announced shortly after 4 p.m. that the panel of seven women and five men had found Alexandra Mansonet, 50, guilty of recklessly causing the death of Yuwen Wang, a 39-year-old Hazlet woman.

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