A young boy heading home from his yeshiva was fatally struck by a school bus.
Mordechai Pinchos Spitzer, 8, walked in front of the bus that was outside of his school in Rockland County, New York, on Monday, Yeshiva World News reported.
Paramedics rushed to the scene in the village of New Square but were not able to resuscitate the boy, who suffered critical injuries.
Mordechai was pronounced dead just feet away from the school, News 12 Hudson Valley reported.
The incident happened around 6pm at the intersection of Stern Street and Clinton lane, according to Ramapo police. The bus was passing through to pick up students from the school and take them home, investigators said.
After the crash, the bus driver remained at the scene and cooperated with cops.
Cops cordoned off the area around the Jewish school on the 100 block of Clinton Lane and investigators collected evidence for hours and interviewed witnesses.
‘It can be traumatic for the officers who respond, but we do have a wellness team to support officers who are here if they need anything, and often they will do a debrief after the fact,’ Ramapo Police Lt Blaine Howell told the TV station.
‘And that will probably be the case in this situation because it was a young child.’
The police department’s accident reconstruction team continues to investigate the case.
Mordechai was the son of Rabbi and Mrs Yakov Yosef Spitzer. His dad served as the Skver girls school principal.
The boy’s levaya, or funeral, took place on Monday night at the Skvere Bais Hachaim.
Mordechai’s death happened less than two weeks after a nine-year-old boy who was chasing a football and crawled under a school bus was fatally run over. The bus was stationary on Island Bay Drive in Orlando, Florida, when the boy got off. The driver did not know the boy had gone under the bus and hit him.
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