A hit-and-run BMW driver early Sunday killed a young Brooklyn couple on their way to a hospital to have their first child - but the baby miraculously survived.
Nachman and Raizel Glauber, both 21, were riding in the back of a black 2008 Toyota Camry livery cab heading west on Wilson St. when a grey 2010 BMW sedan speeding north on Kent Ave. slammed into their cab at the Williamsburg intersection about 12:30 a.m., cops said
The expectant couple were rushing to a local hospital when the horrific crash happened, relatives said. The impact sent the livery cab spinning onto the median and ejected pregnant Raizel Glauber into the street, her body coming to rest under a parked tractor trailer.
First responders had to cut the roof off the Toyota Camry to extricate Nachman Glauber and the livery driver.
Raizel Glauber was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where doctors performed an emergency C-section on the dying mother and were able to deliver the baby boy. The child is in stable condition in the ICU at Bellevue Hospital and and expected to live.
Nachman Glauber was taken to Beth Israel hospital, where he died. The livery cab driver was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is in stable condition.
The driver of the BMW, along with a passenger, abandoned their car and fled on foot, police said. They have not been found.
"The family is very upset - they are in shock," said Aaron Berger, 23, a relative of the dead couple. "I have so many messages right now.”
The happy couple were married just last year, Berger said.
Nachman and Raizel Glauber, both 21, were riding in the back of a black 2008 Toyota Camry livery cab heading west on Wilson St. when a grey 2010 BMW sedan speeding north on Kent Ave. slammed into their cab at the Williamsburg intersection about 12:30 a.m., cops said
The expectant couple were rushing to a local hospital when the horrific crash happened, relatives said. The impact sent the livery cab spinning onto the median and ejected pregnant Raizel Glauber into the street, her body coming to rest under a parked tractor trailer.
First responders had to cut the roof off the Toyota Camry to extricate Nachman Glauber and the livery driver.
Raizel Glauber was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where doctors performed an emergency C-section on the dying mother and were able to deliver the baby boy. The child is in stable condition in the ICU at Bellevue Hospital and and expected to live.
Nachman Glauber was taken to Beth Israel hospital, where he died. The livery cab driver was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is in stable condition.
The driver of the BMW, along with a passenger, abandoned their car and fled on foot, police said. They have not been found.
"The family is very upset - they are in shock," said Aaron Berger, 23, a relative of the dead couple. "I have so many messages right now.”
The happy couple were married just last year, Berger said.
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