If you think you're having a bad year, consider the bizarre misfortunes of former NBA star Jayson Williams. Last month, a week before he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for accidentally shooting and killing his limousine driver in 2002, Williams crashed his Mercedes-Benz SUV into a tree in Manhattan. His blood-alcohol level was more than double the legal limit at 0.19. In New York, the limit is 0.08.

According to the Associated Press, prosecutors say that on Jan. 5, Williams crashed and slammed his head through his windshield. They say he veered across four lanes of oncoming traffic before smashing into a tree at an exit off of Manhattan's FDR Drive around 3:15 a.m.

Williams pleaded not guilty to the DWI charge. Part of his defense is that he wasn't driving the vehicle and that the driver left the scene after the accident. According to prosecutors, though, there is a surveillance camera and witnesses who say Williams was the only person in the car. The Manhattan district attorney wants Williams to serve the maximum sentence of one year in addition to his 18-month sentence in New Jersey for the aggravated assault charge.

Williams' defense team, if he is convicted on the DWI charge, want him to serve any sentence concurrently with the aggravated assault sentence. They're arguing that having to serve consecutive sentences is unnecessary and unfair. Prosecutors say that if Williams does serve a concurrent sentence it would be as if he received no jail sentence at all. There's no set date on when Williams will answer to the DWI charges, but next week he will be officially sentenced in the shooting.

It's been a rough ride for Williams over the past year. Along with answering to the shooting charges and the DWI, his wife filed for divorce last year, and police used a stun gun on him after he was behaving suicidal in New York back in April. He was also accused of punching a man in the face at a North Carolina bar, but the charges were dropped. Then his father, E.J., died back in November.