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Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in a lawsuit filed by the estate of a former Morris County man who was kicked out of a go-go bar and later killed when he was struck by two cars as he tried to cross Route 10.
The lawsuit claims the Roxbury bar, Smiles II, was reckless and negligent when it forced Robert Doyle, 42, of Succasunna, to leave the establishment on the night of Feb. 23, 2006, because he was dangerously intoxicated after drinking at the bar and had earlier passed out.
The victim was "extremely intoxicated, completely incoherent, disoriented and unable to walk ..." the lawsuit claims.
"(The) defendants escorted him (Doyle) out of the door of Smiles II knowing the exit of the premises entered directly onto Route 10, a heavily traveled highway" according to the lawsuit.
Doyle was struck by one car and run over by a second as he tried to cross the highway, the lawsuit states.
The nine-page complaint names the owner of the bar, Kev-She Realty Associates, bartenders Peter Vasilopoulos and Eric Olsen, and two other unnamed bar employees, and the drivers/owners of the two cars, Angel Nickens of Budd Lake and Theresa and Williams Edwards of Andover Township.
Trial begins in case of Roxbury bar ejecting drunk man before he was fatally struck by cars | NJ.com
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