A Butler Township man will face eight charges, including vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol, in Luzerne County Court for his role in a fatal accident April 24.

District Judge Daniel O’Donnell on Wednesday bound over the charges against Kevin Prussock, 25, who was allegedly drunk when his vehicle crashed into another driven by Joseph Gigliotti, who died at the scene.

Gigliotti’s family and friends stood outside O’Donnell’s Sugarloaf Township courtroom in a rally against drunk driving, as they had at Prussock’s arraignment in May.

Prussock’s vehicle crossed the double yellow line on East Butler Drive in Butler Township just outside Freeland, forcing one oncoming, eastbound car to swerve off the road and striking Gigliotti’s car nearly head-on near Terrace Road, according to the criminal complaint. Police said Prussock’s blood-alcohol level was .181 percent – more than twice the legal limit – at the time of the early-afternoon crash.