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Members of the Satmar Orthodox Jewish community carry the caskets of the two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident, March 3, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A driver struck the car the couple were riding in early Sunday morning, killing both parents while their baby, who was born prematurely at the accident site, later died.

Expectant parents killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run accident; baby deliverd by cesarean dies

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News: A baby boy delivered after a hit-and-run car crash in New York that killed both his parents has died, a family spokesman said Monday.

Doctors performed an emergency cesarean section at the site of the crash early Sunday in Brooklyn to save the boy’s life. His parents were using a car service to go to the hospital when their vehicle crashed into a BMW an intersection.

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