The Essex County Prosecutor’s office has identified the woman killed when a car crashed into a Newark, New Jersey, laundromat Monday.
Ruth Benjamin, 81, was seated at a table near the front of the Ivy Hill Laundromat at around 2:30 p.m. when two vehicles crashed into the business on Irvington Avenue.
“She was the backbone of the family”
“That was my best friend. What can I tell you? I mean, I’m her only children,” son Frenchie Benjamin said. “You expect your relatives to go, but you just don’t know when. And at her age, you know, obviously time is very short.”
“She was the backbone of the family. She cared about everybody,” he added.
The prosecutor says a pickup truck hit a parked vehicle outside the laundromat, and both crashed through the front window. Ruth Benjamin was killed, and an employee was also injured…