A young girl was nearly struck by a bus on the corner of 50th Street and 14th Avenue in Boro Park on Wednesday, when she and her presumed sister were rushing to cross the street, apparently unaware that they were attempting to cross on a solid red.
Security camera footage shows the two girls race into the street, when they realize they had made a terrible mistake. The older girl pulled back, but the younger child continued a few steps ahead, leaping backwards just in time to avoid a coach bus that was coming to a screeching halt as its driver attempted to avert a tragedy.
The children themselves have to be more careful, but as can clearly be seen in the video below, adults were crossing against the light, too. It is quite possible that the young girls assumed the light was green. Regardless of whether this is the case or not, what is obvious is that adults are not taking safety seriously enough. Even if you’re not worried about yourself getting struck by a vehicle, think of the child whose life was nearly cut short today as she arguably followed the example of adults.
As the summer begins, and the streets are filled with children, please educate them on the importance of safety – both verbally and by personal example. Drivers too should be extra cautious as the streets teem with people.
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Little children frequently do dumb and careless things. They always have. That the human race nevertheless has survived and has fruitfully multiplied suggests Ha-Shem is involved in the the day to day operations of the planet. And while the exact nature of the clothes furnished to the “first couple” is subject to debate, no one claims they were outfitted with bubblewrap and kevlar.
AN OPEN MIRACLE BH
It is also reckless to park a school bus on a city street so close to the cross walk which clearly blocks the view for both pedestrians and cars.
Think of the mothers that push their carriages into the street past the school bus just to get a glimpse if a car is coming down the street. If it was a corner with a stop sign then neither the pedestrian sees the car and neither the car sees the ped until it may be too late.
All I can is ‘שֹׁמֵ֣ר פְּתָאיִ֣ם ה or perhaps־אם ה לֹא יִשְׁמׇר־עִ֝֗יר שָׁ֤וְא ׀ שָׁקַ֬ד שׁוֹמֵֽר ׃
This not something that is occasional but all the time. Adults children bike riders playing chicken with drivers. But it isn’t exclusively boro park Lakewood Flatbush as well
Welcome to BP . Drivers go thru red lights w/o second thought . 50th & 14th is very dangerous !!!!
Was the bus going faster than 20 MPH? That’s the new speed limit.
Driving this week, I saw unsere kinder on bikes, scooters, skates, balance devices, etc., and not one helmet. Negligence, a tragedy waiting to happen
@yanki welcome to NYC
You can see in the video that the cross walk signal indicated that they should not cross at that time. Thankfully they were not hurt.
Doesn’t anyone notice that they were running across the street ON A RED LIGHT??????? I’m sorry, but I’m not feeling a lot of sympathy.
Did the bus driver attempt run the light or did the girl enter the street before the light changed?
I hope these girls never forget the Petch their mother will inflict in them tonight. a one time flogging will save many lives. forever. i would be in bitter trouble had that happened to me growing up. my mother would not give up till she had no more strength to smack more.
Indeed Hashem is great. al nisecha shebchol yom. boruch hashem we were fortunate enough and had enough zechusim for this miracle.
please, anyone. whoever knows what mitzvah or zechus that girl had should please let us know.
Looks like the school bus with seemingly opened doors is parked near a Jewish institution. Should be instructing their drivers not to obscure pedestrians.
Yanky10 is 100% right! Also, like it says in the article, it is clearly the adults that are careless and reckless, thet are causing the kids to follow. This goes on every day. Adults do not obey the law and do reckless things and kids copy.
Don’t lecture adults about not crossing on a red. Every corner has a traffic light and you can’t expect people stand and wait like idiots every 100 feet even if there are no cars passing.
This was fully the children’s fault. Running through an intersection like that would be reckless even if they had the light. There are so many bikes and scooters whizzing by these streets that could seriously injure you if you don’t look before crossing.
Baruch Hashem this was only a close call
School buses should be in a parking lot. Not on the street, like every other city
jewish source
After you think about it, I hope you have a much higher standard for “open miracle” because things like this happen to goyim all of the time.
DontMindMe
YOU ARE A CHAZER
Don’tMindMe is right. You are supposed to look if it’s safe to cross before crossing the street, regardless if one is an adult or child. These kids not only didn’t look, they ran into the street. It is not the fault of adults crossing the street if they looked and deemed it safe to cross FOR THEM. You can see in the video that they are all looking if there is an oncoming car or if it’s safe for them to cross. No one is going to stop at every corner and wait for the light to turn red if there are no oncoming cars and it’s ridiculous to expect that of people.