Borough Park, NY – A child was seriously struck by a school bus on the way to school.
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Hatzolah rushed to the scene of the accident requesting paramedics on a rush to 13th Avenue nd 49th Street.
But unfortunately the 5-year-old boy has succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced r”l dead. NYPD of the 66th Precinct are on the scene and Highway A.I.S. team are responding.
The school bus left the scene of the accident not realizing he hit a child but has since been located and stopped.
The child has been identified as Amrom Altman son of Mr. Avraham Meir Altman the owner of Mail Box on 49th Street.
The Levay’a will be held 2:30 PM in front of the Altman residents on 49th Street.
All photos – Video Credit: ShiaHD for VIN News
BDE. Very sad. Which school bus and can a name be released already?
ANOTHER story of a child being harmed by a bus or car…….all the protests for childrens safety against BIKES, and I have YET to see a story of a child getting hurt by a passing biker…
Gevald who’s the boy,and from cheder?
Who was the bus driver.
BDE
How much more do we have to take? And please don’t start with the finger pointing. This is another terrible tragedy for Klal Yisrael & I cry for the child’s parents, family & friends. BD”E.
These poor parents sending there kid to cheder or school little does a person know hashem yeracheim
BDE
bus from yeshiva darkei chaim under the auspices of grand rabbi yakov yosef halberstam shlita. child was student of that school.
BDE please be extra careful and explain the dangers to kids
I realy think that its time to designate at each and every corner to pick up the kids. Instead of the middle of the block that will save lots of lives. Burach Dyen Emes.
I was seating on my couch babysiting my little boy, and I hear a noise from the outside my son tells me helycopter, so I said something most of happined, so thanks for vin I got the update right away, Iam siting and crying nebech a tinuk shlo taam cheth, we have to do teshuva this is not normal, my heart feels so bad for the pearnts and the child r”l, this is so paiinful, besuros tovos.
Please all of klall yisroel let this be the moment that we should all improve in our weak points everyone knows what his improvements need to be done and it should be a zechus for this poor neshumela!
BDE
oy riboinoy shel olam! what happened to the “marbin bsimcha????”
P.S.Please be extra careful with the ice outside! It is treacherous!
oy tatte
time for the PARENTS teach the kids how to not get hit crossing the street cant blame the drivers all the time
Thank you big masmid.
I’m sure ur the perfect masmid and only the woman are wrong in tznius.
True, tznius today is terrible but we sadly have too many wrong things going on between jews. I’m sure its you included.
Don’t tell pple what to correct. You do what you have to and everyone should do what they have to.
BDE. Oy vey, very sad news.
some more info please ?????
Was it a 4 year old or 8 year old boy? Not that it makes a difference. Its a tremendous tragedy and may hashem give a lot of stregnth to the family of this boy to be able to cope with this now and forever. Does anyone know a name?
Boruch dayan Haemes, the family should have a yeshuah
Rachmanus on all his family members and all of klal yisroel, one after the next, first martin g. then this, enough tragedies in a 24 hour period, תנצבה.
Reply to #2
Where is your heart, thats all you could say, just dont post your stupidities.
Does someone know who is this boy?
whats the name of this family? which yeshiva?
Was the black ice a factor here?
The black ice this night was the worse I saw in decades
BDE…and I’d like to reiterate a school bus safey law;
(NY State Law)
Once stopped for a school bus, you may not drive again until the red lights stop flashing or when the bus driver or a traffic officer waves you on. This law applies on all roadways in New York State. You must stop for a school bus even if it is on the opposite side of a divided highway
we should all be mischazek in torah and tefillah and may HKB”H have mercy on all of us.
The mothers’ demands, that their child should be picked up right in front of her door, and only by the bus that belongs to the yeshiva that conforms to her husbands social believes; makes the whole commuting very dangerous.
It is miraculous, that tragedies aren’t more common.
BDE, The neshama should have a yeridah in to oylam haze with the coming of moshiach NOW!
Although we don’t know the circumstances of this particular tragedy, the adult bus monitor should always get OFF the bus when the children are entering or leaving – the monitor should make a COMPLETE visual check that there are no precious kinderlach standing near the bus BEFORE the bus pulls away each and every time. And, if we have to pay a few more dollars for this, who could think of a better “investment” ? We must all insist on this policy beginning TODAY…….
BD”E, May Hashem send a nechuma to the family.
It is a miracle that there aren’t more of these accidents. There are probably more buses in Boro Park during the 8-9 hour than there are in any one neighborhood in the US. There are many cheders and they all stop on every block. The drivers are in a BIG rush, they have to finish their route on time. Accidents are bound to happen.
Something needs to be done to remedy this madness. Why can’t there be a program of pooling a few cheders together into one bus. This will take care of the traffic issues as well as make the streets safer for our kids.
would like to extend my heartfelt sorrow for the family of the boy who nebach woke up to a day full of joy and before they knew it was a sad day.
on the same note my heart goes out to the driver you cant imagine whats racing threw his mind at this time as much as we want to scream bus drivers should be more careful i know first hand that a lot of the frum bus drivers have been cautious and improved the safety.
dont know what exactly happened in this case possible negligence on the driver or that the kid just ran out in front of the bus.
Please please drive carefully in the Boro Park Flatbush area as well as in all areas..These places are full of children going to and from their homes. These places are densely populated with poor roads and poor signage.
Lets all pray for this child.
no one is to blame here. the kid nebach slipped on the ice and the driver didnt see him. he drove of not knowing he hit the poor neshama. if only people would think before they write unappropriate comments. dont blame parents or yeshivas or anyone here. it was a tragic accident.
How many of the hatzolah members standing around stopped to say a kapitel tehillim?
We pride ourselves with the term “Yiddishe Mama”.
But in reality, it is the “Non-Yiddishe Mama”, who gets all her children dressed every morning and they all walk togethr to various schools, and in front of the school building she kisses her children good-bye.
While they are walking to school, the Yiddishe mother is on the phone explaining to a friend how the bus has to come into the block, special for her child, because she can’t send to another school because of some politics.
Gut zul upheetan di imshildige kinderlich i cant imagine how the mother must feel inchodesh adar a month of simcha
He was nebach killed bec. He slippede on ice. It is unfortunity a very normal occurrence in BP to slips on ice. Because so many people dont clean the sidewalk and even the city just shovels the snow to the side and people are falling all the time with tragic outcomes. Europeans and canadians who come here cant belive the sight of this , it is extremly dangerous , but very normal here like so many other things thats considered normal here but not in the rest of the world.
can someone please tell me what really happened instead of all you peoples stupid comments .what wrong with this world!!
We would like to start a new program were as all School Buses may stop on street corners only to pick up the children,
mothers stop whining cause it has worked in Flatbush for so many years most school buses pick up on the corners you can have 1 or 2 parents from the block who take turns every day to escort the kids
Mommies- plse escort ur child to the bus even if he’s alrdy 8 yrs old. Driver can’t always see a short child but can see the mother rather.
Hashem shld watch over us all.
BDE Where is the boy now?
I am a forty years old person thrown off on the floor by a young bucher driving a bike on the sidewalk
Hashem should save us all this is to much for one day
First mr grossman then a mother of so many children dies of cancer after so many years of suffering and then this sudden accident
Hashem should help us all
2-4 kids get killed a year by buses. it is an avoidable tragedy. for kids going to yeshiva in williamsburg or boro park, there is no need to pick them up in school buses. there are better ways to do it. the whole community should think about a better way. I have an idea, but its not the right time to discuss it. however, people should realize there is a better way, and accidents like these are avoidable.
Wise words & common sense. The only way Yeshivas will institute this idea is if PARENTS DEMAND IT!
You pay enough for bus transportation (either private or in your taxes.) Don’t be so apathetic about it. Treat this subject with the same attention as you do to making sure your kids’ snack is healthy & kosher.
As for the rest of you hurling insults at each other…what is wrong with you? Can someone please explain why you feel it’s so important to do this every time R”L a tragedy happens? Is it because you feel helpless & frustrated? So do something positive. VOLUNTEER! Say Tehillim. Take a single parent family under your wing. Invite an almoneh for Shabbos.
Channel your feelings for good. And please stop piling on the spiritual pain by your sinah.
Maybe they need DESIGNATED STOP AREAS ONLY painted in BRIGHT YELLOW on the curb so EVERYONE will notice, respect and maybe saves lives. That poor little neshoma; only tears rights now, i feel awful for the family. [Personally, i feel the buses are too wild because they are on a tight schedule.]
kudos to #20 i couldnt put in words a response to that shallow minded #8 If the chofetz chaim was alive today im surre he would focus on  220;sinus chinum 221; most cases of  220;tznius 221; in Lakewood and other places happen as a effect and not the cause mainly by judgemental people like #8 . Would love to know what yourr  220;pekalah  220;is.
An 8-year-old boy slipped on the ice in Brooklyn and fell in front of a bus that hit and killed him, horrified witnesses said.
The bus never slowed down.
A small red-and-black backpack lay in the middle of the Borough Park street Wednesday – just a few feet from a white sheet that had been carefully placed over the tiny corpse.
“He was only a kid – it’s a crying shame,” said Rocco Botta, who was working at a construction project just a block from the 8 a.m. accident at 13th Ave. and 49th St.
“I heard a commotion and saw a small boy just lying on the road,” Botta, 55, said. “Someone had run him over.”
A witness who saw the child’s crushed body called 911, but a Hatzolah ambulance crew could not revive him, officials said.
Witnesses said they saw a bus leaving the scene moments before anyone noticed the mortally injured boy. It was not clear if the driver realized he had struck the child.
“The child was so small,” said Botta, who lives in the Bronx. “The person who hit him may have thought it was snow and just kept going.”
Cops scoured the area after the crash hunting for the fleeing vehicle, which one witness said appeared to be a school bus, police said.
The boy’s name was Amrom Altman may his soul rest in peace with all Tzadikim in Gan Eiden and may Hashem heal his family from this terrible tragedy
Daily news says that the boy slipped on ice and fell, his name was Amrom Altman may his pure Neshama have a an Aliyah and may Hashem heal his family from this teribble tragedy that has befallen them.