Funeral services have been scheduled for Michael Sot, the 20-year-old college student who died after his car was struck by a motorist who was allegedly intoxicated.
CLARK - Funeral services have been scheduled for Michael Sot, the 20-year-old college student who died after his car was struck by a motorist who was allegedly intoxicated.
Services will be held 3 p.m Sunday at the Higgins and Bonner Funeral Home, 582 Springfield Ave., Westfield. A funeral Mass will be held 10 a.m. Monday at St. John the Apostle Church on Valley Road here.
Born in Livingston to Candice Buno-Sot and Michael Sot, he graduated from Arthur L. Johnson High School where he was a star baseball player and a member of the National Honor Society.
Sot was a sophomore at The College of New Jersey where he was majoring in math with the hope of becoming an actuary. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi national fraternity.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his younger brothers Jon Sot and Matthew Sot, sister Jessica Sot and stepbrother Frankie Fabio; stepmother Jana Fabio; grandparents Jasmin and Tom Buno, and Carolyn and Ed Sot and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Sot, who was serving as a designated driver, died on Tuesday from the injuries suffered in an accident early Sunday morning.
The crash remains under investigation, but authorities determined that shortly after 2 a.m., David Lamar V, 22, of West Windsor was driving south on Pennington Road near the college's Ewing campus, crossed over the double line and crashed head-on into Sot’s 2007 Dodge Charger, which was heading north.
Police on Monday charged Lamar with seven counts of assault by auto after investigators determined he was impaired during the crash, which injured eight people, including five TCNJ students who were passengers in Sot’s car.
Hours after Sot died, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced that a charge of vehicular homicide will be filed against Lamar.
April 21, 2019, 5:14 p.m.