Teaneck Pedestrian Hit-Run: Harlem Man Turns Himself In

A Harlem driver surrendered to police after leaving the scene of a Teaneck crash that sent a pedestrian to the hospital with severe injuries, authorities said Wednesday.

Barrett Lewis
Photo Credit: *MUGSHOT: Courtesy TEANECK PD*

Jerry DeMarco

05/01/2019 11:55 a.m.

Barrett Lewis, 55, came to police headquarters about a half-hour after the 11:13 p.m. crash Tuesday and said he was the driver whose SUV hit the 48-year-old victim on Teaneck Road near Bedford Avenue and then sped off, Police Chief Glenn O’Reilly said.

The Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the unconscious man to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries so severe that the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Investigations Unit was called, O’Reilly said.

The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

Lewis, of West 122nd Street, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving serious injury and endangering an injured victim.

He was released pending a first appearance in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court. His vehicle was seized as evidence.

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