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Driver Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Woman in New Jersey Farmers Market

A man accused of driving through a New Jersey farmers market last weekend, hitting three people and killing one of them, has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges.

James Woetzel, of Hawthorne, was brought into court in a wheelchair on Wednesday.

Woetzel was ordered to surrender his driver's license and undergo a psychiatric evaluation; he remains held on $200,000 bail.

Authorities say the 48-year-old Woetzel drove his pickup truck through a barricade on Sunday, hitting the three people and knocking over stands and sending produce into the air.

Fifty-eight-year-old Donna Wine, of Hawthorne, was dragged for three blocks and killed. Two others were treated at a hospital.

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