Surfside, FL – Family Grateful Boy Survives After Being Hit By Truck on Way To Shul

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     Five-year-old Ikey HorowitzSurfside, FL – Five-year-old Ikey Horowitz and his father were going to a synagogue in Surfside, when the child was hit by a truck.

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    Surveillance video shows a white truck driving down an alley way. Next, the video shows Ikey riding along the sidewalk on his scooter. Without seeing the boy, the truck hits Ikey.

    Yossie Horowitz, the boy’s father, was just feet behind his son and sprang into action. Horowitz banged on the truck to stop so the back wheels would not run Ikey over. The truck stopped and the driver got out. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was pretty shocked. My stomach hit the floor,” said Yossie. “I just ran and tried to pull him out before the back wheels would hit him as well.”

    Ikey only suffered a sprained ankle in the accident. The family believes it is a miracle their son survived, without major injuries. “It’s amazing that all he has is a sprained ankle. I mean, I would be saying he was lucky to be alive, but beyond that, I’d be saying he was lucky he had broken legs, but he’s lucky he’s got a sprained ankle and he’s pretty much healed already in 48 hours. I mean, it’s pretty miraculous,” said Katy Horowitz, Ikey’s mom.


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    fachmuret
    fachmuret
    12 years ago

    The reporter really sounds so happy to do this story.

    5Downer
    5Downer
    12 years ago

    If you ever went to shul in Yershalayim on Shabbat, you would see that all the kids ride their scooters to shul, payot and tzitzit flying behind them. Another example of a baseless chumra.

    Lodzker
    Lodzker
    12 years ago

    um… where does it say anything about shabbos??

    Berel13
    Berel13
    12 years ago

    What an angry self rightious judgemental group. Where doees it say it was on shabbos?

    Respect
    Respect
    12 years ago

    HODU LASHEM! Thank you hashem for this beautiful boy’s health and the inspiration this post shares with the broader world.

    Can we please ignore the discussion of scooters on shabbos (which many rabbanim allow even in chareidi areas in EY)? I have seen this, I don’t let my kids do this, but I’ve spoken with rabbanim here in EY and many of them seem to think I’m too chumradik on this.

    12 years ago

    They were going to shul where does it say on Shabbos, and the way the boy is dress it does not look like it was Shabbos

    jewish-person
    jewish-person
    12 years ago

    thank you for sharing this, what a wonderful story

    clear-thinker
    clear-thinker
    12 years ago

    I am at a loss. There is a video about a miracle where a child survived being run over by a truck. Yet to many the only thing worthy of being written is whether a five year old is halachically allowed to ride on a scooter. Whether they were dressed for shule (since it is clear no streimel on anyone). It is becoming clear that some here care about seeming frum, not at seeing miracles from Hashem. I wonder what is wrong with you. Have you lost sight of Hashem’s actions? Do you not believe in G-d, but only in appearing frum? It is beyond me. Do you really believe that it is more important to debate using a scooter, than thanking Hashem for his intervention?