FOOTAGE: Woman Rolls Over on the Belt on Tisha B’Av. Her First Request: A Tichel and a Psak to Drink

A frum woman was pulled from her car after it overturned on the Belt Parkway on Thursday, Tisha B’Av, as she drove from the Five Towns to Brooklyn — and her first two requests of the frum boys who rescued her were a tichel to cover her hair and a psak on whether she could drink during the fast, one of the men on scene told Belaaz.

Pinchas, who runs a Tisha B’Av program for bochurim, tells Belaaz he was driving into Brooklyn when the vehicle ahead of him flipped. He and the friend traveling with him quickly pulled over, exited and removed the woman from the car, which had begun smoking by the time they reached her.

The woman told them she was frum and FIRST asked whether they had a Tichel to cover her hair.

Pinchas said he was not driving his own car that day. He had taken his mother’s Tesla and did not know what was inside it.

“Maybe — it’s my mother’s car,” he told her, according to his account to Belaaz.

But when he checked the back of the Tesla, he found none other than a tichel.

He handed it to her, and after covering her hair, the woman asked her second question: whether she was permitted to drink water on the taanis.

“Who thinks of that?” Pinchas said in the conversation with Belaaz. “Most people get out of a crash and they’re like, ‘Give me a Powerade.’ She goes, ‘I need a tichel. Am I allowed to drink?’ I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I could have ever heard.”

The rescue was recorded in full. Pinchas usually drives his own vehicle, and the footage exists only because he had borrowed his mother’s car that afternoon. He shared the video exclusively with Belaaz.

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Pinchas said he was only on the Belt Parkway at that moment because he was running late. He runs a Tisha B’Av program that encourages bochurim to take on the fast, picking them up for the final hours of the day and spending them together before breaking the taanis as a group. He had delayed his departure that afternoon to sit with one more bochur he was trying to be mekarev to join the program.

That conversation put him on the road later than planned — and directly behind the car that flipped. In the right place at the right time.

The program still went ahead that evening as scheduled. Pinchas rented an escape room for this year’s event, he said.

Pinchas recounted the incident to Belaaz in a conversation and shared the footage with Belaaz.