Driver charged in fatal Parkway crash offered good Samaritan a reward to help him flee, cops say Updated Feb 17, 2021; An Essex County man was arrested after investigators say he caused a fatal crash on the Garden State Parkway on Monday and then offered a good Samaritan a reward to take him away from the scene. Ronaldo Godwin, 43, of Newark, was charged with second-degree death by auto and second-degree witness tampering after the crash that killed 46-year-old Christopher Meikle of East Orange, authorities said. The crash occurred about 2:45 a.m. in the southbound lanes near mile marker 136 in Clark, according to Union County Assistant Prosecutor Armando Suarez and New Jersey State Police.