BORO PARK (VINnews) — Horrifying footage is circulating of a child being struck by a vehicle after running into the street.
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A young boy can be seen running into the street without warning, giving the driver no time to react.
The child was knocked off his feet from the impact. He then gets up and walks out of the street.
Hatzalah responded to the incident, and thankfuully the child is in stable condition.
The footage is horrifying, but reminds us all to be careful before entering the street.
How fast was the car driving?
After watching this I think i never will drive down a city block too fast again. Miracles happened here!!!
Where are his parents?????
kids in boro park are alwayS in rush somewhere HE NEVER EVEN STOP TO LOOK COMMON SENSE WHEN YOU CROOS A STREET. PARENTS DONT TEACH THEM THE BUTTOM LINE>
Probably reading VIN….
Also in the evening it’s very hard to see people who are wearing only dark colors
Was the driver on the cell phone? That would dramatically diminish his cognitive ability to recognize a problem and/or the response.
We need constant Siyata Dishmaya driving in our neighborhoods because the street lighting is bad, the people are dressed in dark clothes making them nearly invisible, and then you have the “frummies” that only walk in the streets rather than use the sidewalks. If the driver is c”v talking their cell – or even worse – texting; they are murderers
Why are u blaming the driver? U see clearly the boy running across the street.
I’m related to the driver which since some ppl in this thread assume was speeding/left the scene……… I can tell you that the driver has the parents # and the parents have the drivers # kid has a small bump on his head and the kid was for observation for 2 hours and hatzala was called………. But since everyone saw a video let’s blame the driver and assume all BAD things because……… I don’t know
why is it that some ppl’s default assumption is to blame the driver even you can CLEARLY see the boy JUST WALKS INTO THE STREET WITHOUT LOOKING if there’s a car coming……..?
do you have a way to CONFIRM the MPH the driver was going? I will get into your expert shoes and tell u tht the driver probably slowed down since there’s a double parked car…………which probably helped avoid………….
why is your default assumption to assume the driver left the scene?
why is your default assumption that the driver was on their cell?
The posts on this story remind me of long nights…back when I spent some time driving flatbed tractor trailers over the road, how I was often bemused by the amount of useless chatter we’d engage in on our CBs…there to fight white line monotony. Here…?
Quite possibly a suicide attempt.
That kid was surely bruised up more than a bump on his head. You see him limping away. I hope they did a complete body evaluation of him in the hospital. Bodily injuries and post concussions after being hit by a car at this speed, legal or not, tend to show up days later. I hope he is getting the proper care he needs. Why wasn’t the police called to record the accident?
The kid was crossing the street to get into the double parked white vehicle.
57th Street is a miracle block. A car hit me on 57th between 13th and new utrecht 17 years ago, and i walked away unscathed.
About a fourteen years ago, I was leaving our local JCC, and driving through a residential neighborhood, where I previously driven through many times before. I was traveling no faster than 15-20 mph, as I had just turned onto a quiet residential street, where the speed limit is 25 mph. All of a sudden, some boy, no older than eight or nine years old, charged out onto the street in between two parked cars, directly in front of me. He couldn’t have been more than 25-30 feet in front of me. Immediately, I slammed on my brakes very rapidly! I was very fortunate that my car had excellent brakes, and by the grace of Hashem, I was able to safely stop, only inches from that boy. I’ll never forget the way that boy stood there grinning at me. I was so upset, at what almost occurred, that I yelled something out of the car window at him, that I should not have said. Nothing in all of my years of driving, prepared me for the shock of what almost occurred. Then, I heard that boy’s Mother, yelling for him to get back into the house. Guess what, about a week or so later, that same character was again playing in the middle of the street, on an alternative block!
Listen all – main thing is the boy is okay. Hashem has guarded him. May we all be well P-G.
Obviously the kid walked out without looking, most likely to the white double parked car on the left side of the street.I think this comes from the school buses stopping in the middle of the street and everyone around them has to stop. This does not teach kids road safety, but gives them the false sense of security that they are safe and never need to look where they are going.
Its time for a pedestrian safety awareness campaign, especially in school age children.
I’m just very happy the boy uis ok. Everything else can be debated for days without a conclusion.