A Fort Lee man who authorities said was drunk last summer when his speeding Honda Civic slammed into a Ridgefield building, killing one of his passengers, isn’t likely to ever recover, attorneys for both sides said today.
Tamer Ammar remains “physically and mentally incapacitated” from injuries sustained in the July 24, 2014 crash at the intersection formerly called the “Ridgefield traffic circle” on Routes 1-9, defense attorney Robert Biaggotti told a judge in Hackensack.
His friend Miles Reme was killed and another, James Racanelli, severely injured. All three were Fort Lee High School athletes and 20 years old.
Racanelli has recovered but “there is no doubt Mr. Ammar was severely injured in the crash,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Martin Delaney told Superior Court Judge Frances A. McGrogan.
Many doubted that Ammar would survive injuries that included bleeding of the brain following the pre-dawn July 24 crash near the Ridgefield circle.
Authorities said he was speeding when he lost control of his father’s 2014 Civic as it headed north on Broad Avenue toward the circle. After barreling through bus-stop signs and into oncoming traffic over a stretch of nearly a quarter-mile, the car slammed into the side of an accounting business. READ MORE….
TOP: Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Martin Delaney, defense attorney Robert Biaggotti (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia)
