Pedestrian seriously injured in Woodmere

A vehicular accident that occurred at 6:04 a.m. on Sept. 1 resulted in what the police termed “considerable” injury to the pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle as the man was getting out of his car near the Young Israel of Woodmere synagogue between Island and Longacre avenues on Peninsula Boulevard in Woodmere.

During the morning, the accident closed a lane a traffic as police conducted an investigation. That lane has been reopened.

This portion of Peninsula Boulevard  has  had its share of accidents most likely due to  excessiove speeding. Most recently, Woodmere resident Stewart Hecht was struck and killed by a vehicle at the intersection he intersection of Edward Avenue and Peninsula Boulevard  on Dec. 31 of 2019, when he was hit by a 2019 Infinity sport utility vehicle. Other sections of Peninsula Boulevard have also been the scene of fatalies and non-life threatening injuries.

In the past decade, the volume of vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the community has grown as more synagogues have opened, and the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach moved into the former Number Six School on Church Avenue more than four years ago. 

This story will be updated.