Nuggets' guard J.R. Smith is set to appear in a New Jersey municipal court next week to face traffic offenses stemming from a car crash that killed a friend in 2007.

In October a grand jury declined to indict the New Jersey native on vehicular homicide charges that could have carried a jail term.

Police say Smith drove his SUV around a stopped car and into the path of an oncoming car in June 2007. His friend Andre Bell was killed in the crash.

Smith has since had two more speeding tickets and three license suspensions in New Jersey.