Sullivan County, NY – Three people are dead in an upstate Sullivan County collision that took place late this afternoon.
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State police told VIN News that six people were involved in the single car crash which took place in the vicinity of exit 112, Yankee Lake – Masten Lake, on Route 17.
“The driver of the car lost control of the vehicle,” Trooper Steven Nevel, public information officer for the New York State Police told VIN News. A state police investigation is currently underway at the accident scene. There were no adverse weather conditions at the time of the accident.
The three dead are Lower East Side residents Morris Faitelewicz, his wife Beth and their future son in law, Yehuda Bayme of Riverdale.
Morris Faitelewicz was renowned for his volunteerism and was an active member of Hatzolah who was well known as ES17. Faitelewicz sat on Community Board 3, rising through the ranks to become its vice chairperson and also served as citywide coordinator and deputy inspector of the NYPD’s Auxiliary Support Emergency Services Rescue Unit. Commanding officer of the NYPD Auxiliary Volunteer EMS Unit in the area of the World Trade Center, Faitelewicz supervised units at Ground Zero for almost nine months, earning both a Port Authority Exceptional Service Award and a proclamation from the City Council for his efforts.
Beth Faitelewicz, a registered nurse at Beth Israel Medical Center for over 29 years, was not scheduled to work on 9/11 but she walked a mile and a half to Beth Israel in order to be on hand when the anticipated casualties arrived at the hospital, according to an article published in 2011 by Advanced Healthcare Network for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine. Living in Lower Manhattan and working so close to Ground Zero, 9/11 played an enormous part in the lives of the entire family.
“Even today, it’s hard for me to go near there,” said Mrs. Faitelewicz. “We had the smell of it for months, the smell of burning, rotting flesh. The dirt on our windows was the same as that from the Holocaust. This was our holocaust.”
The Faitelewicz’s, parents of three children, celebrated their wedding anniversary in June. A post in honor of the occasion on Mrs. Faitelewicz’s Facebook page reads, “Tomorrow will be our wedding anniversary number 33! I am the luckiest woman to be with Morris Faitelewicz, he is a special husband and a very caring dad. Hope we spend many more happy and healthy years together!”
Yehuda Bayme, a Riverdale resident, was engaged to the Faitelewicz’s only daughter, Shani. An office manager at Soufeh Capital Partners in New York City, Bayme also taught remedial studies to elementary school students in Brooklyn.
Nebach, Hashem Yerachem.
השם ישמרינו
BD”E…what a way to end the summer season
It should be Tichleh shono iklusehu and we should have a coming year of only good news and simches.
My family has known this family for more than 40 years. I can’t even begin to express the heartbreak. All I can do is say tehillim for the 3 children in the hospital for them to have a refuah and for them to have strength for the tough days ahead. I can’t think of anything else to say.
Terrible tragedy, so sad, I am crying for them and their family. They are a kapora for klall Yisroel.
So so sad.
Hashem yerachem.
Please Hashem stop all the suffering please stop all this terrible pain and please bring Moshiach and the geula shleima now!
Morris was such a mentsch and Beth was a princess. You would not meet finer people. May the abister bring healing to his children and comfort to Yehuda’s parents, Mr & Mrs Steven Bayme and his siblings.
We need to beware and respect the road especially when travelling very fast just like we need to beware and respect deep water. There is no time for sight-seeing, distractions or momentarily falling asleep when travelling hundreds of feet per second.
Senseless tragedy. BDE.
terrible tragedy, terrible!
The levaya for Yehuda Bayme will be held today, Tuesday, September 8th, at 1:00pm at Hebrew Institute of Riverdale – The Bayit, 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Bronx, NY 10463.
A speaker and seats will be set outside on the terrace from where Kohanim can see and hear the service.
Burial will follow at Cedar Park Beth El Cemetery, 735 Forest Avenue in Paramus, NJ 07652.
Names for Tehillim are : Yaakov Dov Ben Blima Chana; Shoshana Chaya Bas Blima Chana ;Avraham Yosef Ben Blima Chana. May they all have a Refuah Shelaimah-
Baruch Dayan HaEmes–My heart aches for Mrs Fs parents whom I have met over the years. There are no words that I can express for the hartzveitug that this tragedy has brought. May they all have a lichtiger Gan Eden and be Meilitzeh Yosher for their families and gantz klal Yisroel.
I am surprised I got so many stupid comments in response to something so simple. All I said that everyone should learn from not only this terrible tragedy, but from all tragedies. When ch’v a baby drowns it is usually avoidable. When people have liver disease from drinking too much alcohol it is avoidable, or doing drugs. etc etc. We should look at these tragedies and try to avoid doing them and warn others about their inherent dangers.
Car accidents are usually avoidable and only happen due to a couple of reasons. It doesn’t matter now whose fault it was. They could have been hit by another car who was at fault. I am trying to warn drivers that if everyone didn’t do any of these ever : “sight-seeing, distractions or momentarily falling asleep when travelling hundreds of feet per second.” then there would be 99% less car accidents.
To the kind person who said that 30mph = 44 ft/sec, even more concentration and care is needed when travelling at two or three times that speed.
BDE, what a tragedy. I am sick from reading this. Refuah shalaimah to the survivors. Horrible.
I agree with everyone that it is stupid to blame the driver, who was involved in this fatal crash. There has to be a thorough investigation by accident investigators, to determine the cause of the crash. They will do an accident reconstruction if the scene. Many years ago, my late Uncle, who was giving his son pointers on driving, stated “I want you to know, that you are handling two tons of fast, moving steel”. One never knows what they will run into on the road. One time, I saw a wheel which had fallen off a car, coming straight at my car, on the highway. Fortunately, I was able to avoid it. Another time, I suffered a Vertigo attack while driving, and I experienced a feeling of the highway bouncing up and down. Fortunately, I was able to drive off the road, and rest. It is up to the Rebonisho shel Olem, what will occur to us while driving. A good Yom Tov to everyone!