New York Giant football legend and loudmouth Hyundai dealer Brad Benson probably won’t be casting his son in his over-the-top car ads anytime soon.
Clint Benson, 21, allegedly ran down a man with a pickup truck, fracturing the victim’s skull and bruising his lungs, outside a New Jersey bar in the wee hours of St. Patrick’s Day, police said.
To make matters worse for dad — whose goofy radio commercials have featured the former offensive lineman’s vows to give up sex and show off his “40-foot erection” — his son was driving a Nissan.
The younger Benson got into a confrontation with Richard Lachner, 23, in a Branchburg parking lot early last Sunday.
Lachner was in the bar when he heard from incoming patrons that Clint Benson was in the lot scaring people with his driving, a source said.
“Lachner went outside because Clint was driving erratically,” a law-enforcement official said.
“Lachner was walking back to the bar, and that’s when Clint struck him with the truck.”
Clint drove away, returned and then drove off again, police said. He later crashed into a guardrail and totaled his 2004 Nissan Frontier, which had an elevated suspension and oversize tires, police said.
Clint, who lives in his father’s Hillsborough home, hit a .20 percent blood-alcohol level on a breath test — nearly 2 1/2 times the legal limit, police said.
He was charged with driving under the influence and released on $20,000 bail, but later turned himself in on a subsequent aggravated-assault charge.
Brad Benson accompanied his son to his surrender at the prosecutor’s office Thursday. Lachner has been released from the hospital.