Fallsburg, NY – An early morning car crash left one Frum teenager in critical condition, YWN has learned.
The accident occurred at approximately 4:00AM, on Route 42 just near the 4 Corners Bakery & bagel store.
Arriving Catskills Hatzolah units reported a vehicle overturned with 6 teens injured, with one of them ejected from the vehicle and critically injured.
Dozens of Hatzolah members were called to assist in treating the injuried, along with Sullivan EMS, Fallsburg PD, and FD.
The 16-year-old critically injuried passenger was transported to Westchester Trauma Unit by ground. (A chopper was unable to fly due to bad weather conditions.) Some of the others were reportedly seriously injured.
A police investigation into the cause of the crash is underway.
YWN has no further information at this time.
(Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN Sullivan County News Team – 2010)
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32 Responses
what were they doing out at 4 in the morning? I thought teenagers weren’t allowed to drive in the mountains?
Partying!
The driving takanah has as much enforcement as the Simcha Guidelines. It is a suggestion without teeth.
Refuah Sheleimah. Besoros Tovos.
#2
Simcha Guidelines is an optional thing nobody forces you to go into it. But 16 year old Buchirim driving at 4:00 in the morining where are the maggid shurim, where are the parents? These boys should be suspended from yeshiva and given a knas for a few weeks.
I hate these reactions of people who the second they here of a tragedy they find something foolish to say. Why don’t you say a chapter of tehillim instead?!?
To # 5,
We all feel for these boys and im sure we all said tehilim for them but the bottom line is this tragedy could have been prevented from the start. Teen boys who have no driving experience should not be driving in a highly dangerous area and certainly not at 4:00 am. If you are a parent im sure you wouldnt want your teen putting his/her life in harm’s way.
I just don’t understand you people by kicking these kids out of school is just going throw more and more jewish teens off the derch. WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OFF ALREADY???? I think # 5 is rite say some tehillim and try to give our kids as much love as possiable to help threw there hard teenage years in 2010 where even when they are going threw a rough time they still feel support from the religous ones so hopefully one day they shall return
Proud orthodox,
I agree Tehillim is needed. Throughout the 3 weeks all we have been hearing is one bad omen after another. Now entering the 9 days yidden should be extra careful an should say extra Tehillim. No loshon hara only words of Torah and chizuk. May we only see an end to sadness and finally have a geulah to Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh and our Bais HaMikdash AMEN
The boy who is in critical condition is my cousin, and can use everyone’s tefilos. His name is Binyamin Yehudah Ben Rivkah Yehudis. I do not know the condition of the other boys, but Hashem should send them all a Refuah Sheleimah Bekarov.
(Please only post smart comments and not any degrading ones, thanks.)
Please say Tehillim for the boy in critical condition – Binyamin Yehudah Ben Rivkah Yehudis. I don’t know the whereabouts of the other boys, but Hashem should send them all a Refuah Sheleimah.
To golden101 and everyone else. These children are in critical condition, that not some broken bones, that life changing injuries. To go and say that they should be suspended and knassed!? Where is your brain, where is your heart!? You worried about punishing these children when their life is dangling by a thread. You digust me, I was shocked to see your post, you should be ashamed of yourself and maybe take a deep look inside yourself check if you still have a heart. May these children have a refua sheliayma.
I agree, doesn’t matter what they were doing out that late. Just say tehillim and hope they get better.
Any names of the passengers so that we can start a rota of Tehillim?
golden101; good idea. not from yeshiva but they should be expelled from camp for this summer
maybe they were on the way to the mikva and were planning on davening vasikin. what happened to being dan l’chaf zchus?
What’s the name to be mispalel
Nore details please.
Please say Tehillim for Binyamin Yehudah ben Rivkah Yehudis
Call me naïve but I don’t see anywhere in the article that it says a teen was driving it may have been a family on there way home after spending shabbos away from the bungalow and they had a tragic accident
#4
listen if these kids are partying at 4 in the morning do you think they’re listening to they’re “magid shiurim”? do you think they’re listening to they’re parents? obviously not! so would suspending them and putting them on the streets help? NO, so i think you should probably just say tehillim like #5 says you should!
It was this crash in particular that makes the ban on underage driving even more important. We don’t need one teen tragedy a summer, to learn that the teenage mind does not have the ability to know what safe driving is. There are many teens that are good drivers, and there are many roads that are unsafe. A good driver on a cracked, windy, and unfamiliar road is worth nothing. Don’t let your teens drive!
and why weren’t they wearing seatbelts? And the comments were not foolish
ywhocker
Please reread my post. I answered to the person who said that the takunus for underage driving is just like the chasana takunus. Of coarse these boys need a refuah shleimeh, but that still doesn’t make them in the right. A boy of 16 should not be by the wheel of a car. There is no pointing fingers here. But, it still hurts for a parent to hear such a thing.
PLEASE!!! When somebody is desparate for z’chusim, why are always certain people busy finding faults?
Wow! This is disgusting! I always why hasn’t moshiach come yet? Now its clear.six of our brothers were critically injured-one worse then the rest (who I personally know) and people play the blame game? Can you imagine if the families of these pour souls would read some of these comments.their poor sons are laying somewhere in a hospital bed and the only thing fellow jews can say is they should be knassed and expelled?regardless who,what,where and when- jew is a Jew.hashem gives us these tsaros to see what we as a united nation would do, would we daven or would be criticize and blame.I know my answer.Daven for Binyamin G and the other victoms aswell.
ppl go off the derech bec of u u no y r u even jewish its the dumest stayment i ever herd i actualy no these ppl how can u say this one of the person is u should say tehillim for is malkah bas tamer she got hurt the worst and the other is Binyamin Yehudah ben Rivkah Yehudis please say tehillim. we cant listen to this guys garbage i wouldnt call him even a jew for such a statment
these boys were teenagers who go upstate to have a good time ( most of us were in that situation at one point in our life) it was a terrible accident and there is nothing parents or rabbeim can do..
these are real nice kids… please lets start tehillim for them…
Well said Elik. Very well said
Omg everyone stop complaining and SAY TEHILLIM!!!! I’m very close freinds with all of them and Baruch Hashem most of them are ok. Benyomin yehuda Ben Rivka yehudis is still in critical condition and needs are teffillos!!!!!
golden101-its a good thing i dont know who you are cuz if i did i think i would give you a very big piece of my mind. how dare you say something like that???? suspension from yeshiva???? no one is asking your stupid opinion at a time like this!!!! dont you think the crash was enough of a lesson for these teens???? go say some tehillim and dont think your input is wanted!!!!
Just wanted to let everyone know that the boys involved in the accident shouldnt be judged in any way or be put into any category, getting kicked out of camp or yeshiva has nothing to do with thid incident, it wouldnt accomplish anything. I actually know three of the boys and heard first hand information and they are BH ok, the other four im not sure about. Please continue to say Tehilim. Thank u for ur support.
To Everyone Out There Who Feels Misunderstood, Hopeless and Insignificant,
We know how you feel. We have been exactly where you are now. We were once teens whose lives were so messed up it seemed like it didn’t matter what we did anymore. People looked down on us. We saw it in their faces, every time they looked at us, their eyes full of pity and disdain. Everyone thought we were hopeless and doomed to fail. We were a source of disappointment to our families, friends, teachers and most importantly, ourselves. There was no point in even trying, because no matter what we did, it wasn’t going to make a difference. No one would ever love us or accept us for who we were. They could only see that we weren’t who they wanted us to be.
But we were wrong. And so are you.
We turned our lives around. And so can you.
Not everyone is the typical yeshiva bochur or the classic Bais Yaakov girl The fact that you don’t fit the mold doesn’t make you any less important or any less valuable. If you are a teenager who is misunderstood by your parents, your teachers, or society in general, then we are talking to you. If you are a teenager who feels like nobody cares if you live or die, we are here to tell you that you are wrong.
We all need to feel accomplished. We all need to be loved and appreciated. We all need to know that someone is proud of us. Maybe you aren’t feeling that love and support from your family or teachers and are tired of feeling like you can’t do anything right. You turn to other things that seem to bring you the support and the happiness that you crave so desperately.
Maybe it is speeding that gives you a thrill. Not wearing a seatbelt. Taking the curves faster than you should. Driving, even though you don’t have a license. Hanging out in places that you shouldn’t. Spending time with the wrong crowd. The buzz you get after a few shots from a really good bottle. Artificial highs may help for an hour or two but they aren’t going to solve your problems, not in the long run. Don’t ruin your life by looking for love, approval and excitement in the wrong places.
It’s time to start caring about your life and where you are headed. There are people in this world who love you and who care about you. Who will listen if you need to talk. Who will support you unconditionally, for no reason other than the fact that just by being a fellow Jew, you matter.
Most importantly, know that Hashem loves you. Each and every day He is looking out for you and hoping that you remember that He only wants the best for you. No matter what mistakes you have made, Hashem is always there for you. There is nothing you have done that can change that. Every day is a gift, a precious opportunity to start over again and make things right.
But you need to care about yourself. You need to make smart decisions and not put yourself in dangerous situations. You need to know that people love you, care about you and that you matter.
With four teenagers hospitalized after a horrific accident in the mountains, we all find ourselves saying Tehillim. Why would four young people put themselves at risk? Four young lives, changed forever, because they put themselves in danger, assuming it would all turn out okay.
It didn’t.
Don’t put yourself in a situation that may result in someone having to say Tehillim for you. There are people out there who love you, who will do their best to help you. Don’t ruin your life and the lives of countless others. We are here for you, any time of day or night and we are just a phone call away.
If you are a teenager in need of a friend, we want to hear from you.
If you are a parent who can’t figure out how to reach your kids, maybe we can help bridge the gap.
Call us. Any time of day. Any time of night. We will put you in touch with people who can help you turn your life around and realize just how special, how important and how loved you are. We see the real you. We know who you really are deep down inside. We know just how valuable you are.
Chaim & Yossi