At about 8:30 PM on Tuesday night, the Ramapo Police responded to the intersection of Carlton Road and Sands Point Road in the Monsey area of Ramapo, for a motor vehicle accident where two pedestrians had been struck while crossing the street.
The car was travelling south Sands Point Road as the two people were crossing Carlton Road in the crosswalk, when they were struck by the front bumper of the car, knocking them both to the ground. The driver stopped to ask if they were ok, and then left the scene of the accident without exchanging information or calling the police. One of the stuck pedestrians was able to get the license plate number and called Hatzolah Ambulance, who then called for the police.
Police on the scene were able to locate and identify the driver of the vehicle, a 68 year old male, of W. Maple Avenue, Monsey, NY.
He was operating a 2008 Toyota sedan.
He was ticketed for failure to yield to a pedestrian in crosswalk, a traffic infraction and also ticketed for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, which is an unclassified misdemeanor of the vehicle and traffic law.
The pedestrians, 43 year old male from Monsey, NY and a 36 year old female also from Monsey. Both were evaluated and released by Hatzolah at the scene for minor injuries, and neither party wished to go to the hospital.
(YWN Monsey Newsroom)
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5 Responses
I hate to say this. Does it surprise anybody this happened in Monsey?
I live just a couple of blocks from that intersection. All I can say is that I am surprised that nothing worse has happened. Monsey is waiting for a tragedy to occur! Most of the neighborhood does not have sidewalks! Everyone walks on the streets! Hardly anyone wears reflectors!..And….. almost everyone wears black…
I come home at night after dark and it is very very difficult to see pedestrians!
We b”h are all blessed with large families. To survive, we put older kids in charge of the younger kids! How many times did i stop my car because a 3 or 4 year old is in the middle of the street without her 6 or 7 year old sister who is in charge of babysitting? (I once literally picked up a 3 year old from the middle of the street..walked over to the sidewalk where it was safe.. and only after 2 or 3 minutes did the mother show up…..grabbed the kid from my hands as if I was a kidnapper)
People, we all know that hashem watches over us.. but we must do our hishtadlus !!!!!
WEAR REFLECTORS….MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS ARE WATCHED (AGE APRROPRIATELY)AT ALL TIMES!
what right did they have to call the police, if the driver himself checked up on them before he left. not as if anyway his fault if they weren’t wearing reflectors.
I agree with #1 and #2. But as a Monsey resident I will add – slow down! People here drive as if every trip is an emergency. I’ve never seen another town where SO MANY people were SO aggressive behind the wheel. Yield when you’re supposed to and come to a full stop at stop signs, and we’ll be seeing less of these stories in the news.
#3, the driver has an obligation to be looking out for pedestrians, and to exchange contact and insurance information in the event of an accident. And frankly, if the person who was hit called Hatzolah, they probably didn’t claim to be fine when the driver asked…
Also, this article has a mistake. It says they were walking in the crosswalk – as far as I remember (and according to Google Maps satellite imagery), there is no crosswalk at that intersection.