(UPDATES ARE BELOW ORIGIONAL STORY)) 1:00PM EST: Kiryas Yoel Hatzolah Paramedics are on the scene of a serious accident involving an overturned van on Route 17 (Eastbound) at exit 125. Two people are reported to be heavily trapped in the vehicle with R”L two confirmed fatalities (possibly a husband & a wife). Route 17 has been shut down for a Medevac landing. Chesed Shel Emmes are on the scene. Further details will be posted as they become available to us.
UPDATE: 3:22PM EST: We regret to inform you of the passing of Chaim Avrohom Moskowitz Z”L, and Fraidy Moskowitz [Altman] A”H (27/22 year-old) of 1769 50th Street -(Boro Park) from this tragic accident on Route 17. Their 4 month-old infant has been transported to Hackensack NJ Trauma Center, and appears to B”H be in stable condition.
Rabbi Beirish Freilich special assistant to the Superintendent of the NY State Police informed Yeshivaworld of the superb cooperation between Kiryas Yoel Hatzolah, Rabbi Moses Witriol (Public Safety Director in Kiryas Yoel), and NY State Police Sergent Wernerheim (Monroe Barracks).
Numerous Chesed Shel Emmes units have arrived on the scene, and the Misaskim organization has been assisting with notification efforts from their Brooklyn Command Center.
UPDATE 3:55PM EST: Route 17 has just been reopened.
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Double fatality in crossover crash on Route 17
October 02, 2007
Goshen 2:05 p.m. — Two people were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon. A state trooper on the scene confirmed that a car traveling eastbound crossed the median and struck a vehicle that was headed westbound.
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 100 to 200 feet away from the crash scene.
Traffic westbound is at a standstill and is backed up as far as Exit 126.
Please tell us which neighborhood and HEBREW NAMES to say Tehillim for those in need.
Mishnyos for both niftarim is what is needed. Hashem Yiracheim.
From another website:
“Goshen — 3:09 p.m. — 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 has traffic westbound outside of Exit 125 at a standstill. Cars are backed up as far as at least Exit 126, with spillover traffic at a crawl in the parallel Route 17M. Motorists are 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.”
Hashem Yerachaim!!
Quickway accident claims two lives
Goshen –Two people two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Route 17 eastbound in the Goshen area today.
The victims were identified by TheYeshivaWorld.com as Chaim Moskowitz, 27, and his 22-yer-old wife, Fraidy Moskowitz, of Boro Park, Brooklyn. Their four-month-old infant was transported to Hackensack, NJ Trauma Center and appears to be in stable condition, according to the online publication.
The accident, earlier this afternoon, occurred near the Arden Hill Campus of Orange Regional Medical Center.
Traffic was being detoured and the westbound lanes were completely closed off this afternoon.
According to people at the scene, one vehicle crossed lanes and crashed into another vehicle.
Police investigators are on the scene trying to determine what caused the fatal crash.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes!
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The levaya is 7:45 in Shomrei Hadas Chapels….may we NEVER hear of tragedies again!!
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes!
We are heartbroken from this tragedy;
we just wonder if one is permitted to publizise this story on Chol Hamoed
the yungerman was known to be a tzadik.
Baruch Dayen Emes!
Weren’t they from Monsey??
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I will always remember you with love,
Tzirel