Williamsburg, NY – Hatzolah on the scene responding to a 2-year-old child in a stroller that was struck by a vehicle.
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The child was knocked down on Flushing Avenue by a van that was making a turn onto Kent Avenue knocking over the stroller and fleeing the scene of the accident. The child is semi-conscious, Hatzolah on the scene is requesting paramedics to respond.
The child is being transported to Bellevue Hospital.
**UPDATE**
NYPD Highway units requested for the possible accident investigation job, child is in serious condition.
Police say the toddler was being pushed in a stroller by his 13-year-old sister when a white van struck the stroller and fled the scene.
The rear wheel of the vehicle ran over the boy’s stomach after he was thrown from the blue carriage, a source said.
He “was trying to cry, but really was not able to cry,” said Joe Chajmovicz, 31, a school bus driver who rushed to the scene when he heard screaming.
The sister was unharmed. There have been no arrests. Police are looking for white 15 passenger van that fled the scene.
Police were searching for nearby surveillance footage that may have captured the vehicle. A source said the driver may be unaware that the child was struck.
Please say Thilliem for Yosef Yitzchok ben Chava Yital
If anyone has any information regarding this accident please contact the NYPD or Williamsburg Shomrim Patrol.
the city has to install more cameras so bad people will not be able to run away like this
I say install cameras & bill Bloomberg.
the intersection is a dangeres one, on the same spot a child was l”u killed a few years ago, it has 2 city bus stops, 1 BP bus stop, a try-angle, a wedding hall and yeshiva and a 2 way street.
A name for תהילים please.
Very interesting, when the city “wants” to install camara’s everybody is all up in arms, about invasion of privacy and now, while it is very tragic, all of a sudden here come the screams install camara’s, we have to install camara’s. Once the story quiets down, and people start feeling the true effect of the camaras, what will you say when someone get arrested for tamporing with a camara? Oh well the city shouldn’t have installed it its an invasion of privacy?
While camaras might have helped identify the driver, don’t forget you CAN’T have the entire city covered with camaras.
B”H surgery went very well they stopped the bleeding, and the child is now critical but stable.
Ben. Please update us as you learn more on the child’s status. My heart is bleeding along with the poor child and his parents. Thank you.
I wasn’t there so I cannot say if the stroller was pushed out into the intersection. The driver of the van leaving the scene is criminal cowardice. This is certainly a tragedy. Having said that, I see so many people pushing baby carriages out in front of them without looking first. Or pushing the stroller into the intersection before the light has changed. Pushing the baby in front of you walking past a driveway, etc. We have all seen it. Please, everyone be mindful when you are pushing your precious child in front of you. May Hashem grant this young child a complete refua.
Let’s please address the issue of pushing the carriage first into the street. Amazing how individuals wheeling a stroller push it into the street and then look! Not to say that in this case the driver may have been guilty but too many times I see a stroller then a parent!~
might the driver have thought he was driving over a pile of snow and not realized what happened?
Can you all be “dan l’kaf zechus”now and stop being self hating Jews..
Where was the mother? Please tell me a child wasn’t responsible for a sibling.
Vans and SUVs can’t see people who are small. There’s no way a 13 year old can responsibly be out and about with a small child with a stroller. I don’t even let my kid take his younger sibling out to walk around the block without crossing streets. No, it’s wrong and dangerous. Sorry.
IMHO, a 13 year old wheeling a stroller is perfectly acceptable. Let us remember that pedestrians have the right of way not the vehicle. Why are we quick to condemn the pedestrian when it is the impatient drivers who are responsible for making sure that there is no pedestrian in the crosswalk? The only sensible solution is to have a short time where the light is read for both directions and only pedestrians have the right to cross. This is how the traffic lights work at The Junction (Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues).
#11 has a good suggestion, but that’s like putting a sheep in front of a tiger and saying, “Don’t eat it…”
Not to say that the driver was not at fault, but it is actually criminal to leave a 2-year-old under the supervision of a 13-year-old. It is technically child neglect, and it is rampant all over this neighborhood. I have worked in williamsburg for six years, and I see children as young as 7 or 8 pushing strollers with infants inside. What is wrong with you people!!!!????? Take care of your children!!!!! The child who died falling down the elevator was also unsupervised. THIS IS NEW YORK CITY – DON’T LEAVE CHILDREN IN THE STREETS BY THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!