By The Diary
Ruth Benjamin died dramatically at age 81 when a car crashed into a laundromat where she was a customer in Newarkthe most populous city in New Jersey.
An employee was also injured. According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, the elderly woman was sitting at a table near the entrance to the “Ivy Hill” Laundromat on Irvington Av around 2:30 pm Monday when two vehicles drove into the establishment. According to authorities, a truck pickup He collided with a vehicle parked outside the laundry, and both ended up going through the front window of the premises.
“She was the pillar of the family,” Frenchie Benjamin told CBS Recordsdatastating that he was the victim’s only son. For him, it was an unintentional tragedy, but it was ironic.
his mother had retired from the Newark Board of Education. “She would get up, go out and continue with her routine; and, obviously, at that moment He was doing just that: washing his clothes, since the washing machine at home was broken. “It’s that simple.”
Police have not released any information about the driver of the van. The investigation remains active and ongoing. Another customer at the laundromat commented that cars sometimes speed through the parking lot. “Sometimes this place looks like a racetrack,” he stated.
A similar case happened last week when a 72-year-old woman was sitting peacefully on a bench and was fatally hit by a car in broad daylight in The Bronx (NYC). Also this month, a 40-year-old man died after a driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into an MTA bus stop near the Staten Island Mall (NYC). Previously, a 44-year-old woman ironically died after being hit by a private ambulance in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn (NYC).
In October, an elderly driver who was reversing his minivan fatally struck an 89-year-old woman and injured two other people in broad daylight in Coney Island, Brooklyn (NYC). In the summer of last year, a woman was arrested on suspicion of fleeing after fatally running over Mexican Félix Thomas Bontia (47) at the car wash where she worked in The Bronx (NYC), two years after fleeing the scene. Additionally, in August an elderly man died and several people were injured after a 69-year-old driver crashed her car into a Planet Smartly Being gym in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
In 2023, an employee died after being hit by a car at his workplace, a Jeep dealership, in Lengthy Island (NY). Previously, in February 2022, a 10-year-old girl was killed and two women were seriously injured when a vehicle operated by an unlicensed driver jumped the sidewalk and crashed into a car wash in Queens (NYC).
In early 2021, a 54-year-old woman was fatally run over at a car wash in Queens (NYC) by an employee who had been drinking, according to police. In the summer of 2019, also in that county, a 51-year-old Mexican driver was killed by her own vehicle after washing it at a gas station. In the spring of 2018, in a double tragedy, a retired NYPD lieutenant and his wife were going to celebrate 65 years of marriage, but both died after being run over at a car wash in Brooklyn.
The authorities remember that there is zero tolerance for drivers who drive at excess speed and/or under the influence of alcohol and drugs.. Cyclists and motorcyclists are also frequent protagonists of road accidents, as victims and perpetrators, when riding on sidewalks, disrespecting traffic lights and even the direction of the streets.