Brooklyn, NY – A 12 year old Chasidic boy is fighting for his life in a Brooklyn hospital after being hit by a car as he rode his bicycle to school this morning.
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Police said that the accident took place just before 7 AM at the corner of Cortelyou and Dahill roads in Kensington. The boy was riding westbound on Cortelyou Road on his way to the Stoliner yeshiva when he was hit by a car traveling northbound on Dahill Road.
Police responded to a 911 call placed at 6:58 this morning and found the bicyclist lying in the roadway with severe head trauma. A picture tweeted by Misaskim of the boy’s severely mangled bicycle helmet was accompanied by the words “This helmet the boy wore this morning when struck by a car @misaskim reminds u without it he wouldn’t stand a chance.”
The 24 year old driver of the 2015 Lexus remained at the scene and police said there appears to have been no criminality involved in the incident.
The boy, who is just three months shy of his bar mitzvah, was transported by Hatzolah to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition. He is currently undergoing surgery for a serious brain injury.
The public is asked to daven for Moshe Yehuda ben Rochel Miriam.
And why is the helmet that protected his head in pieces?
oy vey, please no more Jewish suffering.
To some extent an object that protects will also deform or fail while it absorbs some of the force. This is why cars crumple in predetermined weak spots.
I was wondering why the streets there were closed off at 7:30. Cycling in a crowded city in very dangerous.
As soon as the requirement to wear helmets when biking came out, my 8 year old daughter wore a helmet, fell off her bike onto her head, and only got a scratch on her cheek. I was so thankful for that helmet. It is very important.
there are no words to express the amount of kavod i have reserved for misaskim, but i feel that posting a picture of the boy’s helmet was insensitive. an awful visual of a little boy’s crushed skull can be done with words, not the actual helmet from the scene of the accident
refuah shlaima for this boy
With all due respect for my fellow VIN posted, the first 10 posts i read here and without a doubt from the dumbest i have seen. Your all are clueless about the standards, a child in the hospital and youur spewing stupid comments, please say a kappiitil thillim, his name is above
Why are helmets forbidden in New Square?
I blame the driver fully. He was most probably speeding like a maniac. Young shnook of 24 years old. Nebuch poor boy mustve been hit pretty hard
Today at 02:11 PM
Anonymous Says:
Why are helmets forbidden in New Square?
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the same reason women and men can’t walk on the same side of street.the same reason all men must wear heavy boots in the middle of summer even in 90 degree heat,the same reason you cannot pray anyplace else but in the Rebe’s shul,and if you transgressed that rule they burn your house down together with your family.the same reason a Jew who is not a Skverrer chasid cannot buy a house within two miles of New Square.
I could go on and on,but you get the drift.
CHAIM