New York – An SUV smashed into a concrete pillar and flipped over before bursting into flames early Sunday, killing three women and two children. The driver, along with another adult and a child inside the vehicle, were hospitalized.
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A 2008 Mercedes Benz SUV carrying eight people was traveling eastbound on Atlantic Avenue in the New York borough of Queens around 3:15 a.m. when it hit a concrete pillar east of the Van Wyck Expressway, authorities said.
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The impact flipped the car and sent it rolling over. Police said the severely mangled SUV ended up on its side and erupted into flames.
Three adult passengers, all women, were declared dead at the scene, as were an 8-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy.
The driver, a 45-year-old woman, was undergoing surgery at Jamaica Hospital, said Joann Ariola of the hospital’s public affairs department. She said a 7-year-old boy was in stable condition in the pediatric emergency room, and a man was in stable condition and likely to be treated and soon released. Police said that man was 26 years old.
No identifications have been released.
Horrible story!!! Ughhh
I am genuinely surprised that no one has asked yet if the victims of this terrible accident were Jewish.
Questions of that nature usually appear simultaneously with the publication of the story. What has happened to all the usual ghouls?
the 9 days
#2 take your meds btw were they jewish ? Just need to know if I should take out a tehilim and ask around for the names of the injured ?
Were they Jewish?
Motor vehicles are notoriously unforgiving, when loss of control occurs. Motorists can’t seems to understand that they are dealing with 2-3 tons of fast moving steel. They seem to feel that with seat belts (which many times they don’t use), air bags, and so called “crumple zones”, that they are omnipotent. Once a car goes airborne and starts flipping over and over, there is a very high likelihood of serious injury and death. Even race car drivers who wear protective helmets, and are in so called crash proof cars, often suffer serious injury or worse, when such accidents occur. In this particular case, an eye witness stated that he saw that SUV drive through two red lights.
The difference between us “ghouls” and you is quite apparent. We care about our brethren and you don’t even care about anyone, including the victims of this horiffic tragedy.
It seems that my earlier posting (#2) has had the desired effect of scaring off nearly all those people who demand names of the injured and the dead, those who then ask if the recently departed Ploni from Pinsk was related to Almoni of Minsk, not to mention all those who chip in telling us that the incident or accident was “a sign”.
Of course I am as sad as the next person that five people needlessly lost their lives.
What I object to are the actions of those I chose to describe as “ghouls”, who are no better than Jewish sharks, hyenas and jackals. At least the last mentioned do not know any better; the human ghouls should.