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Boruch Dayan Hoemes - Chaim Avrohom Moskowitz OBM (22), and wife Fraidy (nee Altman) Moskowitz OBM (21) of Borough Park.

GOSHEN, NY — The parents of a 4-month-old infant were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon, police said.

Parents of Infant Killed in Crossover Crash on Route 17

Times Herald Record

Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Chaim Avrohom Moskowitz OBM (22), and wife Fraidy (nee Altman) Moskowitz OBM (21) of Borough Park.

GOSHEN, NY — The parents of a 4-month-old infant were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon, police said.

The man and woman were in a gray Lumina traveling eastbound when the driver apparently went off the right shoulder, overcorrected, veered across two lanes and the grassy median and into oncoming traffic in the westbound lanes, police said. The Lumina, T-boned by a Camry, then rolled over.

The infant was taken by ambulance to Hackensack, N.J., hospital. Two people in the Camry, a couple from Middletown, were taken to the Arden HIll campus of Orange Regional Medical Center in Goshen.

The crash had traffic westbound outside of Exit 125 at a standstill. Cars were backed up as far as at least Exit 126, with spillover traffic at a crawl in the parallel Route 17M. Motorists were advised to avoid the area. Traffic eastbound on Route 17 is moving but slowly.

Route 17 has been the scene of numerous such cross-over crashes, prompting the state Department of Transportation to install metal barriers in the grassy median. This one section had not yet had the barriers installed though the work was only about half a mile away from the crash scene.

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8 Comments

  • parent

    A truly horrific tragedy. May Hashem give Menucha to the family…and please, let’s keep the comments decent. No blaming anybody’s Hashkafas or anything else.

    We are all Eine Mishpacha…what hurts in BP hurts in CH, WB, Monroe, Monsey etc etc. May Hashem comfort us all & bring the ultimate Yeshua.

  • anonymous

    AD MOSAI, AD MOSAI
    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
    We need MOSHIACH NOW!!!
    May we only have a year full of Simchas, no more Sorrows

  • yossi s

    oh my G-d, hashem how do u let such a thing happen i am crying AND SO IS ALL OF YISREAL how do u let this happen. I hope this baby has wonderful grandparents or an aunt and uncle
    Lets only hear of GOOD things AMEN