An elderly person driving a Lexus plowed straight into a Kosher Bakery in Fair Lawn NJ, Thursday morning.
It happened around 11:00AM at Zaides Kosher bake Shop, located on Fair Lawn Avenue.
Miraculously, the driver and a customer only sustained minor injuries.
The Daily Voice reports that both victims refused medical attention, and that building inspectors were on the scene determining if there was any structural damage.
The co-owner of the bakery, Ann Steinberg, told ABC7 it appeared an older driver who is a regular customer accidentally stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
She said this has happened before, and as a result, the property owner installed yellow poles outside the business.
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8 Responses
One of the hardest thing in the world is getting an elderly parent to stop driving. There is usually a very big grey area that hard to see.
Best to bring them to an optician to see if they see good let them break the news
Really unprofessional headline
(At least if it were spelled in the headline and in the text, the same way the bakery spells it.)
To Jewish Source I didn’t mean seeing as in eyesight. I meant the overall ability to drive. When an elderly person loses his ” privilege” to drive it usually means the end of their independence. This is very hard realty to come to terms with.
So … why didn’t the yellow poles (seen in some of the photos) stop the car?!
My father is 90 till 120 and the day he felt his eyesight is weaking he turned in his license and quit driving
This is very frightening and could have potentially ended far worse. I personally feel that in the zechus of persistent strength of the Torah, Mitzvos, Kashrus, and Chessed of the Steinberg family, injuries and lives were spared.