Car Hits Senior Citizen In Hoboken

A car struck an 89-year-old Hoboken woman on Friday, sending the woman to the hospital with possible head trauma.

The senior citizen was crossing the street east on Fifth Street from Washington Street, when a turning vehicle struck her while she was in the crosswalk, police stated in a release.

The driver immediately stopped and assisted the woman until police arrived. He claimed that he didn’t see the woman, and was issued a motor vehicle traffic summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.

Emergency responders transported the woman to Jersey City Medical Center for “treatment to her lower extremities and possible head trauma,” police stated.

Only a few days earlier, Mayor Dawn Zimmer – who lost her father-in-law to a hit-and-run car collision – had released a list of initiatives the city is undertaking to increase pedestrian safety.

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