Berkeley Township Man Pleads Guilty To Causing Injury While Driving Unlicensed

Thursday, July 17, 2025, 9:30 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

BEACHWOOD, NJ.- On Monday, a 56-year-old Berkeley Township, New Jersey, man, currently detained in the Ocean County Jail, admitted to seriously injuring a bicyclist while driving unlicensed in connection with a motor vehicle crash that occurred on April 30, 2025, in Beachwood, New Jersey.

     According to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer, on Monday, July 14, 2025, Michael P. Gable, 56, of Berkeley Township, New Jersey, appeared in Ocean County Superior Court and pleaded guilty to Causing Serious Bodily Injury to Another Person While Driving Unlicensed.

     In return for the guilty plea, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office will seek a term of 364 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of probation. Upon entering his plea, the court accepted the plea and scheduled Gable to be sentenced on August 29, 2025.

According To Court Documents

     According to court documents, on April 30, 2025, members of the Beachwood Police Department responded to a 911 Emergency Call reporting a bicyclist being struck by a motor vehicle in the area of Mizzen Avenue and Locker Street in the Borough of Beachwood.

     During a subsequent investigation, Detectives of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit-Vehicular Homicide Unit and the Beachwood Police Department determined that a 17-year-old male was operating an electric bicycle northbound on Locker Street when he was struck at the intersection of Locker Street and Mizzen Avenue by a motor vehicle traveling eastbound on Mizzen Avenue.

     The vehicle failed to stop or did not call local authorities for assistance. The teenage boy sustained serious injuries in the crash and was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey, and has since been released and continues to recover at home. 

     Further investigation uncovered that Gable was operating the vehicle that struck the teen and that he was unlicensed at the time of the crash. Following the investigation, Gable was taken into custody later on April 30, 2025, and charged. He has remained detained in the Ocean County Jail since his initial arrest.