Woman in Serious Condition after Being Hit by Car in Fort Lee

By Joseph M. Gerace

A wheelchair-bound woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a car in the parking lot of a Fort Lee supermarket early Monday evening.

The 64-year-old female pedestrian was operating a motorized wheelchair in the wrong direction down a driveway shortly after 5 p.m. when Frank Davis, a 70-year-old Englewood Cliffs man, turned his 2012 Buick Lacrosse into the Lemoine Avenue A&P and struck the female, according to police.

Fort Lee Police received numerous 911 calls following the accident stating that the woman, Barbara Lebow, was partially pinned beneath the vehicle, according to Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul.

Officers from the Fort Lee Patrol Division, Traffic Accident Investigation Unit and Detective Bureau responded to the scene along with the Fort Lee Fire Department and Fort Lee Ambulance. Port Authority Police and emergency workers responded to the scene to assist, authorities said. 

The fire department lifted the vehicle off of Lebow, who was transported to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious injuries, according to Bendul.  

“The on-scene investigation indicated that [Lebow], who was operating a motorized wheelchair, was on the wrong side of the driveway traveling west leaving the parking lot at the time of the collision with Davis's vehicle,” Bendul said. 

Neither Lebow or Davis are facing any charges at this time, pending results of the investigation, according to police.

Lemoine Avenue was closed by police following the accident and reopened at 1:37 a.m. early Tuesday. 

The incident is being investigated by the Fort Lee Police Department Accident Investigation Unit with the assistance of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit, Bendul said.