Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey announced today that a Monroe Township man has been sentenced to serve five years in a New Jersey state prison for injuring three people in a multiple vehicle, drunk-driving crash. Ernest Feist, 55, also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $27,623.97 to one of his victims, and to pay $5,833.64 to another victim. The sentence was imposed in New Brunswick on September 18, 2014 by Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz after Feist pleaded guilty on June 5, 2014 to three counts of assault by auto, admitting that he was intoxicated when he crashed his vehicle and injured the three people in the township on June 4, 2013. Feist pleaded guilty after reaching an agreement with Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Allysa Gambarella. Feist was charged after Investigator Michael Daniewicz of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined that Feist was intoxicated and was travelling at 102 miles per hour in a 40 mph zone when he crashed on Hoffman Station Road, near the Hoffman Road intersection. Blood-alcohol testing showed a reading of 0.205 percent following the collision. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. Feist, who was driving west in a 2012 Mercedes CLS, crossed over the double yellow line and struck an on-coming vehicle, a 2004 Toyota Highlander, that was driven by a 57-year-old Manalapan woman. She was airlifted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was treated for severe injuries and continues to undergo medical treatment. Also seriously injured in the crash was a passenger in Feist’s vehicle, a 34-year-old man from Effort, Pa. He was taken to The Medical Center at Princeton in Plainsboro. The remaining victim was a 31-year-old Manalapan woman who was driving a 2004 Mazda that was traveling behind the Toyota Highlander. The driver of the Mazda was taken to CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, where she was treated for injuries and was released.