Brooklyn, NY – A 15-year-old girl was struck and killed by a van Tuesday afternoon as she crossed the street in Midwood, Brooklyn.
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At 2:49 p.m., police came to the intersection of East 7th Street and Avenue O after a report of a pedestrian struck by a car. They found Sara Kishik lying unconscious and unresponsive in the street.
Police learned that a 2006 Ford Econoline van headed east on Avenue O struck Kishik as she crossed from the north side of the street to the south.
Paramedics took Kishik to Maimonides Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The driver remained at the scene after the incident, and criminality is not suspected, police said. Police have not indicated whether citations or tickets have been, or will be, issued.
The family are members of congregation Ateret Torah in Flatbush.
BDE
BDE.
May Hashem stregthen and cousole the family.
Dear Father in Heaven please enough of the sorrows and saddnes.
End this galut.
May hashem give them the strengh to go on . amen.
Boroch Dayan Haemet. May Hashem console the family.
There must be a way of preventing these kinds of accidents in the future, as there have been a number of pedestrian fatalities of late.
Terrible! BDE.
Why was the membership of the family in a particular shul mentioned?
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet
What a foolish comment that we are helpless to avoid future such tragedies and all we can do is “daven and daven”. We can certainly do lots of things including educating kids and drivers about pedestrian safety, installing traffic slowing devices on certain accident prone streets, requiring better side-view mirrors in vans, etc. etc. If some fools think that all we can do to reduce avoidable accidents and fatalities by sitting in shul and davening, then don’t be surprised if c’v one of you own yinglach becomes a victim of such a tragedy. Yes, we should daven to avoid such judgements but we can also do much to make sure it happens less frequently.
when are are the leaders of this community going to take street safety seriously? cars are zooming down the roads here at outrageous speeds!!!
This is so sad. BD”E.
May Hashem comfort them among the mourners of Tzniyon and Yerushalayim and may Hashem comfort us all with the coming of Moshiach BB”A.
To me, it showed that the family is very very chasuv…Ateret Torah Congregation is a very serious shul. So much learning there. Amazing.
People…save the debates for another time. A young woman is dead because of a terrible accident. She is a fellow Jew, and we should just mourn her ill timed passing. At a minimum her family and friends need support now…give them that respect. BDE
Always fights. WHY do you always have to argue about petty, stupid semantics whenever a tragedy occurs?
Can we please stop nitpicking over whether or not the nifteress’s Shul was mentioned & why? Who cares? So it was printed. It doesn’t take anything away from this terrible tragedy. Mourn her loss, make a shiva call, guide your children, drive carefully, but stop fighting. It doesn’t help any of us.
BD”E.
I would like to point out to all that i was driving in boro park on sunday and find that is the absolutely worst area for people to walk and drive as so many drivers there do not stop at stop signs or drive proper speed. flatbush comes in 2nd place in my opinion. where is everyone rushing to? come to a full stop at a stop sign. slow down a little when driving. you will get there five minutes later. its really not a big deal. people can be safer if everyone would go back to the points i brought up.
typical New Yorker attitude . Daven and I continue to be a selfish, carless, driver and the goyishe rules are not my business
Most of the posting are typical of careless selfish individuals. All people have to do drive carefully and watch out for people walking on the street. You have a perpetual mayhem in New York
yes daven daven daven daven and daven some more!!!!! because NO matter how hard someone tries to fool proof every catastrophe… HASHEM is on charge of EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so YES DAVEN AND DO NOT STOP!!!!
IT IS YOUR MOST POWERFUL WEAPON AND PROTECTION!!!!
educate yourself and your children and follow the rules but DAVEN that you be spared of a G’ZAR DIN!!!! R”L!!! you can NOT control other drivers!!!
YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE POWER OF TEFILLA!!! and if ppl did know- they wouldn’t waste a second…
I know because I have been through one challenge after another back to back to back… and my siddur is my therapist, best friend and more.. the pages are soaked to the point in which it ripped…
NO I don’t see my tefillos answered right away.. but we don’t know cheshbones of HaSHem….maybe your tefilla saved another girl or boy from being hurt… We know NOTHING… all we have to kknow is EMUNAH PESHUTA and to get to that point is by davening and realizing that ALL- life, health, wealth and everything else is in the hands of HaSHem ONLY!!!!!! if this is called burying my head in the sand- then I would like to stay in the sand… ill daven for you too.