Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY - City Bus Kills Woman, Holocaust Survivor

Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY - An elderly 79-year-old woman trapped under the giant tire of the 16-ton B6 City Bus screamed in pain in Brooklyn yesterday Shabbos morning as onlookers and emergency workers urged her to hold on.

But the woman who was dragged several feet before she was pinned, was later pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.

"This is unbelievable," said her son, "She's a Holocaust survivor. It's so surreal that my mother had to leave the Earth this way." Her parents and all but one of her eight siblings died in concentration camps.

She was on her way to the Arch Diner when she was struck at the corner of Glenwood Road and Ralph Ave. in East Flatbush about 8:10 a.m. The grandmother of four met her friends for breakfast at the diner every Saturday.
No summonses were issued in the accident and none of the 13 passengers aboard were hurt.