As their livery cab sped to a doctor through Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just after midnight Sunday, it was struck broadside by a gray BMW sedan, whose driver and passenger then abandoned their own wrecked car and vanished into the night.
The expectant parents, Raizy and Nathan Glauber, both 21, were killed. But their baby boy survived, delivered prematurely in what friends and family hailed as a precious gift.
"They were always glowing," one family member, Sarah Gluck, said of the couple on Sunday. "Everybody wants the baby. It's going to have a lot of love."
In the aftermath of the horrifying accident, friends rushed to the hospital to visit the newborn tenaciously clinging to life, then on to the synagogue for the funeral of his parents. The boy's birthday would fall on the anniversary of his parents' death; their burial would occur well before his bris, the circumcision ritual that Jews have honored for thousands of years, and his naming.
Even for a community accustomed to burying its dead quickly, it was a shattering avalanche of events.
The crash happened at Kent Avenue and Wilson Street. The police said the livery cab, a black 2008 Toyota Camry, was traveling west on Wilson Street when it was struck on the driver's side by the 2010 BMW, which had been going north on Kent.
It was not clear if one or both of the drivers was at fault, the police said; the crash was still under investigation. The driver of the BMW is expected to face an eventual charge of fleeing the scene of the accident.
Glauber was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan and was pronounced dead on arrival at 12:41 a.m., a spokesman for the hospital said.
His wife was taken a few blocks farther to Bellevue Hospital Center, a major trauma center skilled at tackling the most challenging emergencies, where the baby was delivered, according to the police. The police said Glauber also had been pronounced dead on arrival. Bellevue officials would not provide further information. A family member said the baby was intubated and was in serious condition.
The livery driver, Pedro Nunez Delacruz, 32, was taken to Bellevue and released. "Show your face," his wife, Yesenia Perdomo, who is pregnant with their fourth child, said Sunday, addressing the BMW driver, who, with the passenger, was still being sought by the police.
Delacruz's application to use the Toyota as a livery cab was pending, and the car should not have been sent to pick up passengers, according to the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. He declined to comment after speaking to the police.
Neighbors in the couple's tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community said the couple were part of the Satmar Hasidic sect and had been paired by a matchmaker before marrying about a year ago. "They were a special couple," said a young woman who lived near Ms. Glauber's parents, two blocks from the accident, and saw them out walking almost every day.
Glauber was from a rabbinical family and worked at a hardware distribution store, a relative said. Glauber grew up in Monsey, N.Y., and came from a prominent family that founded the G&G clothing chain, a major supplier of suits and other garments to the Orthodox community. Mr. Glauber was studying Jewish texts, a traditional pursuit before going on to a career.
A photograph shows the couple smiling shyly in wedding clothes — she in a high-necked white lace gown holding a matching white bouquet, he in a long, belted ceremonial coat and an elaborate fur toque.
When the crash happened, Glauber was 24 weeks pregnant, and she was rushing to seek medical attention because she could no longer feel the baby, a family member said.
Hours later, a solid river of black-hatted, black-coated men packed most of Rodney Street from curb to curb, as the two coffins draped in black velvet were carried from the synagogue after the funeral. Women filled the sidewalk and brownstone stairs on the south side of the street.
Those who spoke at the funeral included Zalman Teitelbaum, a grand rabbi of the Satmar sect, and relatives of the young couple. All wept and wailed as they addressed the mourners.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: March 3, 2013
An earlier version of this article, from The Associated Press, and the caption of a photograph said that the couple was headed to the hospital because RaizyGlauber was in labor. Family members, however, said in subsequent reporting that the couple was on the way to the hospital because of concerns about the baby; whether Ms. Glauber was in labor could not be confirmed.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: March 3, 2013
An earlier version of this article, using information provided by the police, misspelled the given name of one of the victims. She was Raizy Glauber, not Raizi.
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