Pregnant Brooklyn Couple Killed In Car Crash En Route To Hospital, Delivered Son Dies As Well

Expectant Brooklyn couple, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, were killed in a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in Brooklyn as they rushed in a livery cab to the hospital on Sunday. They were both 21. Hundreds mourned the loss of the couple later that day, as the prematurely delivered son remained in critical condition, but died as well on Monday morning.

“If he would have stayed alive, he would have been in memory and a little reminder to the grandparents of his parents,” the leader of the Glaubers’ Orthodox Jewish community Isaac Abraham told CBS. “And now that little boy has been torn away as well.”

According to Jewish law, burials are to occur as soon as possible once members of the community are pronounced dead. At least 1,000 people partook of the funeral service for the deceased at the Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in Brooklyn. No reports have indicated when the burial of their son will be held.

Raizy, who was 7 months pregnant, decided to go to the hospital on Sunday after experiencing pains in her abdomen. Since the Galuber’s did not own a car, they called a livery cab to take them from their Williamsburg, Brooklyn home just after midnight. Only a few blocks into the trip, the cab was T-boned by a BMW at the intersection of Kent Avenue and Wilson Street. Nachman was pinned inside the wrecked vehicle, as Raizy was ejected from the vehicle and found beneath a nearby tractor-trailer. Both were pronounced dead upon arriving at area hospitals.

The driver and passenger of the BMW involved in the crash fled the scene on foot and have yet to be apprehended by authorities, according to reports. While the registered owner of the car has been questioned, the cops are still in search of those who had been inside the vehicle at the time of the accident, law enforcement told the New York Post.