An 81-year-old Pikesville man and the elderly passenger in the front seat of his car died yesterday when the Chevrolet he was driving jumped a curb in the Sinai Hospital parking lot and rammed the hospital building, city police reported.
Moses Cohen, of the 3000 block of Northbrook Road and Rose Scherr, 76, of the same address, died in the 10: 23 a.m. accident, traffic investigators said.
The relationship between the victims was unclear last night.
Sinai officials were unsure why the pair were at the hospital. Cohen was leaving the parking lot on Northern Parkway near West Belvedere Avenue when the accident occurred.
For unknown reasons, Cohen's 1971 Chevrolet Cavalier began sideswiping unoccupied, parked cars at Sinai. After striking three vehicles, Cohen's vehicle jumped the curb, drove over the sidewalk, became airborne and hit the window of an unoccupied conference room in the hospital's Mount Pleasant building, according to police and hospital officials.
Cohen was declared dead at the scene. Scherr was taken to the emergency room and was pronounced dead at 1: 25 p.m.
