CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fifteen year old Bochur is very lucky to be alive this morning, following an early morning crash on Kingston Avenue and Montgomery Street, where a fifteen passenger car service van and a large SUV were involved in a collision which sent them both on to the sidewalk.

Bystanders told CrownHeights.info that the van was speeding up Kingston but it wasn’t immediately clear who ran the red light. The Bochur, who was crossing Montgomery Street, was hit by the van and was thrown against the wall of Kol-Tuv with the van following him and slamming into the wall a few inches from the Bochur!

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Bochur is Lucky to be Alive Following Accident

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fifteen year old Bochur is very lucky to be alive this morning, following an early morning crash on Kingston Avenue and Montgomery Street, where a fifteen passenger car service van and a large SUV were involved in a collision which sent them both on to the sidewalk.

Bystanders told CrownHeights.info that the van was speeding up Kingston but it wasn’t immediately clear who ran the red light. The Bochur, who was crossing Montgomery Street, was hit by the van and was thrown against the wall of Kol-Tuv with the van following him and slamming into the wall a few inches from the Bochur!

More pictures in the Extended Article.

The SUV ended up on the sidewalk facing up Kingston, but not before completely destroying the payphone that once stood there, narrowly avoiding the traffic signal pole and the emergency ‘pull-box’.

Hatzalah responded and treated the Bochur then transported him to Kings County Hospital where he was listed in stable condition. FDNY EMS responded and treated the other two drivers.

16 Comments

  • Yitz

    Attention all Drivers.
    Just drive slower NO MATTER WHAT!!
    Wanna be arrested and detained over Shabbos? and well beyond in jail?
    Cmon stop the screwing around with high speeds… STOP IT NOW????!!!

  • chanie

    since when does the word "lucky" have a place in Judaism, especially Lubavitch!
    life and death are in the hands of G-d…we call it HASHGACHA PRATIS.

    And i am very happy for him and his family that G-d chose life. May he get well soon!

  • mazel

    TO CHANIE: by lucky they mean mazel. the bocher must have a merit in which he was BH saved.
    may he have a quick and easy recovery!

  • la la la

    1)slow down!
    2)you dont have to honk the secend it terns green.
    3)if you are behind a bus dont honk it will not help not move the bus and if you get him too mad he wont move at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • mendel

    we have a cllal that we don’t rely on a miracle, so please every driver should know that s/he is handling a vehicle that not to pleasant to play with

  • Call

    Someone should call 311 and tell them to take the payphone away it’s just ling broken on the sidewalk at Kingston & Montgomery.