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Many people are wondering what actually happened to Devorah Stubin A”H.
How did her vehicle tragically end up in the Passaic River?
Did she have a seizure?
Did she pass out?
One person went back to the street where Devorah was last driving her vehicle, and filmed this frightening video showing how this horrific and tragic accident may have very-well happened.
It was filmed twice – both during the day and again at night.
According to the video, it appears that if someone is not familiar with the area, and is driving at night, they can very easily drive straight off this embankments and tumble down into the Passaic River.
As YWN first reported on Friday morning, Devorah Stubin left her home to go pick up her brother at a rest area on the Garden State Parkway. She was last seen at around 8:45PM when stopped by police for her headlights off in Maywood, N. She told the officer she was lost. The officer gave her directions to get back on the Garden State Parkway.
She was not heard from again.
On Friday afternoon, the search intensified, as Rockland Chaveirim established a command post along with 30 volunteers who arrived from Monsey. Many law enforcement agencies got involved, as well as using K-9′s and Aviation Units.
Despite the arrival of Shabbos, hundreds of volunteers from Hatzolah, Shomrim, Chaverim from many Jewish communities arrived and drove around through the night in search of Devorah and the missing vehicle.
Tragically, on Shabbos afternoon, a Chaveirim volunteer noticed a broken fence near the Passaic River, and notified police. Unfortunately, the vehicle was found submerged, and police divers soon confirmed that the body of Devorah Stubin was inside.
Working closely with the local Medical Examiner and local officials, the Levaya was expedited and was held on Sunday afternoon. Hundreds upon hundreds of mourners attended the Levaya and Kevura.
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20 Responses
Why is this necessary? Bad enough you show terrorist attacks under the excuse that we need to see it, but why this? Should her 10 year old cousin (if she has one) be traumatized so that we can glorify the trauma> Are we so insensitive that we have to show re enactments of tragedies?
Let’s not leave out the tireless work of PASSAIC Chaveirim as well as PASSAIC Hatzola.
thinking clearly, I actually think that this makes much more sense than the terror videos. This could perhaps prevent such a thing from occurring again. (For the record, I didn’t watch it. I live in E”Y)
It’s very tragic and no one should ever have to experience anything like this again. With that said, according to the video, my assumptions are seemingly correct. Devorah turned into a private parking lot (the cemetery lot), drove through the whole lot and plunged into the river. It might have been a seizure, a black out, or G-D forbid texting and driving. My point is that the fence appeared to be hundreds of feet away from the street, into a private lot. It would be very rare for someone to turn into a lot without a conscious thought.
New Jersey signs are notoriously very bad. This is most probably a large contributing factor in both, getting lost and having a hard time discerning a private or public road.
No, jewishflorida, don’t you see? The GPS misdirected her!!
Google “Jews lost in Hebron GPS”
And yes, street signs in NJ are horrible. If they exist at all they directing you as if the GSP is straight ahead which it is… in 10 miles
#1, nobody is glorifying any trauma. I happen to know the individual who posted this video and he will be last person to try and be insensitive to anybody. This person has a heart of gold that should be envied by any human being. He is simply trying to make known that this could have happened to anyone and anyone traveling those roads at night should be warned about he danger.
i dont know what the intent of those who created this video is, but if it hammers home the message to drive carefully especially on dark unfamiliar roads (i am NOT suggesting Devorah a’h was not), it was worth creating it.
Jewishflorida,
Road signs in NJ are bad. That’s what they live with. You’ll also note if you watch the video that the GPS doesn’t tell them to turn.
This makes sense to me!
To jewishflorida(#4) Why do you have to be motzei sheim ra on this poor girl by mentioning texting? Whatever reasons you want to give, warning people or that you said “might” have been, are not valid excuses and there is no to’eles in your unnecessary remark. Maybe you have to ask mechila from her and her family.
Thank you very much for posting this video. It brings a sense of closure with a natural ‘explanation’ to how the accident happened R”L.
I’m relieved to know that this was nothing more than an accident, and that she tried to stop the car at the last minute which discards the theory of a seizure.
It was clearly a Gezeira Min Hashamayim, Hashem Yerachem.
May Hashem bring comfort to her family and friends, and watch over us.
#1 means well, but #7 sums up the emes.
I think it’s a tremendous chesed of the person that took the video. This tremendous tragedy went ignored as a mental unstable girl. He restored kavod to the meis
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of the gps directing someone to their death. One in particular I recall is a woman who drove straight off a dock while following directions. Sometimes they’ve just got your coordinates wrong. Just last week I was looking for a parking lot in Manhattan and my gps sent me into the midtown tunnel.
so sad that this happened. makes it worse that it could’ve very well been prevented with a fence next to the river
WOW! Tizku Limitzvos. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought someone driving into a lake wasn’t an accident. She probably didn’t have GPS if she was lost, but the officer may have told her to go straight till she “can’t go anymore” and then a left. She only realized she was off a road when the pavement ended-only feet from the cliff! Hashem Yeracheim. And she tried to cut her wheel, but her left tires were off already.
Jewish Florida, you seem to have missed something and everything in the video clip. Watch it again.
This is not the first time.
Over the years, I recall on several occasions of hearing about cars going into the Passaic River.
I’m in New York, but don’t know how good/bad the fencing is around it. But this is definitely not the first time.
If I recall correctly Rabbi Segal, (Nochum Segal’s father) died the same way. He got lost in a foggy early morning and his car too plunged into the Passaic River and he was found a day or two later, nebach.
Long island
You have incorrect information
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#18 is incorrect, Rabbi Segal had a heart attack, he was 91