WILLIAMSBURG — A car struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in Williamsburg Saturday morning, police say. According to authorities, the 54-year-old driver of a Honda Accord was making a turn onto Wallabout Street at around 8 a.m. when she plowed into the child. Police say it appears the 9-year-old may have run into traffic. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital, where he later died.

Boy Killed in Accident on Way to Shul Shabbos Morning

WILLIAMSBURG — A car struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in Williamsburg Saturday morning, police say. According to authorities, the 54-year-old driver of a Honda Accord was making a turn onto Wallabout Street at around 8 a.m. when she plowed into the child. Police say it appears the 9-year-old may have run into traffic. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital, where he later died.

Investigators say the driver of the car had a suspended license. She was taken into questioning, and she is expected to face charges in connection with the accident.

7 Comments

  • Paul G. Hoffman

    Our hearts go out to the family. this so sad, and yet on
    Shabbos. What can we learn from this? Drivers need to pay
    more attention to pedestrians. Pedestrians need to obey traffic laws. How many times, have we walked against the
    red light, or the warning don’t walk in a crosswalk/intersection?

  • 770

    It would be a good thing if they would close kingston ave from empire during shul times on shabbos

    there are almost no cars anyways

  • moshiach NOW!!!

    this is sooooooooo sad!
    no words to describe!!

    baruch dayan emes
    \
    we need moshiach. ad mossai???

  • crown heights

    Not only that this family lost one child they also lost a child befor him in 2004 when the 2 year wonderd off and drowned in a pond upstate when they where in shul.
    I feel soooooo SORRY for that family to have to have lost 2 children.