7:00PM EST: Boro Park Hatzolah is currently on the scene of a child struck by a bus at 20th Avenue and 53rd Street. Arriving units are requesting Paramedics to expedite their response as the child in unconscious and has serious injuries R”L.
NYPD Emergency Services are arriving on the scene due to reports that the child is trapped under the vehicle.
UPDATE 7:15PM EST: The child is on board an ambulance, and NYPD is setting up an escort to assist Hatzolah in transporting the child to Lutheran Trauma Center.
The exact condition of the aided is unknown to YWN at this time.
Further details will be posted as they are available to us.
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Pls say tehilim baruch mordecai Ben chasia rivka
Is that name confirmed?
Any news? I hope he will be ok!
I got this name from a friend of mine and I know this name’s family and the stories match so no matter what you are davening for a choleh. I think it is the same one.
Yes the name is confirmed. I live on the block and the mthr gave me the name. So far thre is no news
Any news?
ATTN YWN EDITOR: Correction – the child was NOT hit by a bus, he was hit by a minivan. He was NOT trapped or pinned under the vehicle.
I hear the child is in stable but serious condition.
Witnesses on the scene say the 11 y/o child got onto the street from a spot not visible to the driver – from behind a parked bus (the mini bus pictured).
The driver, a man in his 50’s-60’s saw the child and braked so hard the neighbors a block away heard the squealing tires.
Apparently the driver could not stop on time and he hit the child who suffered serious head trauma and was immediately rendered unconscious.
According to witnesses on the scene, the van didn’t hit the child in the head rather he was knocked down to the ground causing the back of his head to hit the pavement.
Hatzolah BLS and ALS were on scene within two minutes. The cops were also on the scene in minutes and did a great job in helping Hatzolah.
The driver was treated for shock by Hatzolah paramedics.
A special thanks to Boro Park 38 55 57 67 96 220 233 240 246 SI89 and the many undispatched units who were all “around the corner” and “a block or two out”.
(And to the self-hating Yiddelech who will undoubtedly criticize Hatzolah’s over-response, FYI, there were at least 8 cops on the scene, two non-Hatzolah ambulances and an FDNY engine, and that’s before the AI team from Highway and the plainclothes detectives showed up)
Please continue to be mispallel for הילד ברוך מרדכי בן חסיה רבקה
Just spoke to the mthr he’s still on luthran waiting to b transferd and is still in criticall condotion
how creepy – the 10 yr old child hit by a car in flatbush a few weeks ago is Boruch Mordechai ben Tessel
transfered to where? is he conscious? we added his name to our Tehillim list. May Hashem answer our tefillos quickly.
#10, can you read? It clearly says in the article “THE CHILD IS UNCONCIOUS”!