LOWER TWP.--A 14-year veteran of the Lower Township Police Department is charged in a hit and run accident over the weekend.

Officials say just before 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, a gray dodge pickup truck swerved into the opposite lane and sideswiped a New Jersey Transit bus on Townbank Road near Bayshore Road.

Authorities followed scrape marks on the street to a home on Crawford Road and found a pick up truck with heavy front-end damage. Officer Douglas Whitten, 44, was charged with driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to report an accident.

Officer Whitten is suspended from duty.