Nageswar Polamuri, 42, is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash.
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Police say he is responsible for the crash that happened Thursday just before 1 a.m. on Route 18 South near the border of Piscataway Township and New Brunswick.
Polamuri is accused of driving the wrong way on the road and causing the head-on collision before fleeing the scene.
The driver of the other car, Rutgers student Max Spivak, was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Spivak was a senior who was majoring in Sports Management.
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The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information or surveillance footage is asked to call Patrolman William Kloos of the Piscataway Police Department at (732) 562-7647 or Sergeant Jonathan Berman of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office at (732) 745-4328.
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