Charges have been filed against a New Jersey driver who hit and killed a woman loading groceries into her car in a store parking lot, authorities said Monday.
Englewood resident Andrea Miller, 74, was facing east as she loaded groceries into her car in a parking lot at the Closter Plaza shopping mall at 6:13 p.m. Saturday, Closter Police Capt. Vincent Aiello told the Cresskill-Closter Daily Voice.
Just then, 89-year-old Julianna Simor of Allendale, N.J., backed out of a handicapped parking spot outside HomeGoods and kept going, the Daily Voice reported. Traveling south, Simor went backward through the travel lane, jumped a curb and traversed a parking island, then hit Miller, investigators told the outlet.
The seriously injured Miller was rushed to Hackensack Hospital and died on Sunday, Aiello said.
Simor was charged on Monday with improper backing, careless driving, reckless driving and unsafe operation as the investigation continues, Aiello told NJ Advance Media.
