Couple driving to hospital to have 1st child die in car crash; baby delivered alive

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Police are looking for the driver and passenger of a car that slammed into another vehicle carrying a young husband and wife, killing the couple while they were en route to a New York City hospital for the birth of their first child.

Police say their baby boy was delivered prematurely at the hospital after the accident early Sunday in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.

The driver of a BMW slammed into the livery car carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, said Isaac Abraham, a neighbor of Raizy Glauber’s parents who lives two blocks from the scene of the crash.

The engine of the livery car ended up in the backseat, where the pregnant woman was sitting before she was ejected, Abraham said. Her body landed under a parked tractor-trailer, said witnesses who came to the scene after the crash. Nachman Glauber was pinned in the car, and emergency workers had to cut off the roof to get him out, witnesses said

Both of the Glaubers were pronounced dead at hospitals, where doctors performed a cesarean section on the mother to deliver the baby. Both parents died of blunt-force trauma, the medical examiner said.

Their son was in serious condition, Abraham said. Neighbors and friends said the boy weighed only about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms). The hospital did not return calls about the infant. The Glaubers’ livery cab driver was treated for minor injuries at the hospital and was later released. Both the driver of the BMW and a passenger fled and were being sought, police said.

On Saturday, Raizy Glauber “was not feeling well, so they decided to go” to the hospital, said Sara Glauber, Nachman Glauber’s cousin. Abraham said the Glaubers called a car service because they didn’t own a car, which is common for New Yorkers.
The Glaubers were married about a year ago and had begun a life together in Williamsburg, where Raizy Glauber grew up in a prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbinical family, Sara Glauber said.

The Glaubers were mourned by at least 1,000 people at a funeral outside the Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue.
The sound of wailing filled the air as two coffins covered in black velvet with a silver trim were carried from a vehicle. “I will never forget you, my daughter!” said Yitzchok Silberstein, Raizy Glauber’s father.

Afterward, the cars carrying the bodies left and headed to Monsey, where another service was planned in Nachman Glauber’s hometown.
“You don’t meet anyone better than him,” said his cousin. “He was always doing favors for everyone.”
She said Nachman’s mother herself just delivered a baby two weeks ago.

“I’ve never seen a mother-son relationship like this,” Sara Glauber said. “He called her every day to make sure everything was OK. He was the sweetest, most charming human being, always with a smile on his face.”
She added that, of him and his bride, “if one had to go, the other had to go too because they really were one soul.”

 

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