9:25PM EST: UPDATE & PHOTOS BELOW A Flatbush Hatzolah Ambulance has just been involved in a serious accident involving a motorcycle – during an emergency. According to initial reports, the ambulance was transporting a patient to the hospital when the ambulance was involved in the accident on Kings Highway and West 6th Street.
The driver of the motorcycle is reported to be in traumatic arrest, and the NYPD AI Squad is responding to the scene.
UPDATE 10:00PM EST: Sources confirm to YWN that the victim has R”L been pronounced DOA at Lutheran Trauma Center. He is a member of the Sephardic community in Flatbush and is approximately 25-years-old. His name has not been released pending proper family notifications.
It appears that the accident occurred when the motorcycle “T-Boned” the ambulance in the intersection.
Misaskim units are on the scene.
PHOTO LINK: Click HERE for photos by Shimon Gifter & Hillel Engel for YWN.
(Dov Gordon – YWN)
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Sad!!!! BDE
Buroch Dayen HuEmes, Bsiros tovos.
Burech Dayen Huemes.
Terrible tragedy.
May the family overcome this tzure, and moshiach should take us out of gules bekurev.
BDE
what does t-bone mean?
A “T-Bone” is when one vehicle strikes another in the middle of one side (forming a “T”). This wasn’t a head-on collision. Reports are that the ambulance was in the intersection and the motorcyclist struck it from the side.
T- bone is when one vehicle broadsides another
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_collision
nebach… baruch dayan haemes
Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
Ben Yohanan is the accident victim’s name.
Funeral is on Monday, April 20th at Shomrei Hadas Chapels – 3803 14th avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11218 at 11:45 a.m.
May the Niftar’s family be comforted among the mourners of Tzion and Yerushalayim.
baruch dayan emes. May the niftar be a korban for the kllal.