Summary US police are after the BMW driver who slammed into a cab carrying pregnant woman.
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City s Orthodox Jewish community wept after a BMW slammed into a cab carrying a young pregnant woman and her husband to a hospital and killed them the unborn baby survived and attention turned Monday to finding the driver.
Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were looking forward to welcoming their first child. Now the infant must be raised by relatives and neighbors, who mourned the parents Sunday.
The cab s engine ended up in the backseat, where Raizy Glauber, who was seven months pregnant, was sitting before she was ejected, said Isaac Abraham, a neighbor of her parents.
Her body landed under a parked truck, witnesses said. Nachman Glauber was pinned in the car, and emergency workers had to cut off the roof to get him out, witnesses said.
Both were pronounced dead at hospitals, and the medical examiner said blunt-force trauma was the cause. Doctors performed a cesarean section on the mother to deliver the baby, a boy.
The infant was in serious condition, Abraham said. Neighbors and friends said the boy weighed only about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms). The cab driver was treated for minor and released. Both the driver of the BMW and a passenger fled and were being sought, police said.
Police said the registered owner of the BMW, who was not in the car, was charged with insurance fraud. Police said Takia Walk, 29, was arrested Sunday.
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.
Jewish law calls for burial of the dead as soon as possible, and hours after their deaths, the Glaubers were mourned by at least 1,000 people at a funeral outside the Congregation Yetev Lev D Satmar synagogue.
Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250,000. The community has strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world.
