Sunday, January 28, 2007
DEATH FREEZE TRAP, HUBBY CRASH HORROR
A Brooklyn woman helplessly watched her husband slowly freeze to death as they lay trapped in their car for 32 hours after sliding off an icy upstate road, police said yesterday.
Barbara Langner, 58, told rescuers she had desperately yelled at her husband, Alfred, to wake up as he slipped into unconsciousness.
Barbara Langner, who broke her back, sat powerless in the passenger seat as Alfred, 63, died about 13 hours after they drove off the Interstate 87 Northway in North Hudson about 2 a.m. Thursday.
Temperatures dipped to 7 degrees below zero during the harrowing ordeal.
Langner tried to call for help on her cellphone - but there was no reception in the mountainous terrain in Adirondack Park, about 250 miles north of New York City.
An autopsy yesterday revealed Alfred, a retiree who worked for the state Department of Insurance, died of hypothermia.
The couple's maroon 1989 Lincoln Town Car sat pinned in by trees and a boulder, hidden from the view of state troopers.
Relatives began calling cops in Plattsburgh on Friday morning to report that the couple, who were driving back from a wedding in Montreal, had not returned home as expected.
An eagle-eyed trooper spotted the Lincoln only after he pulled over another car nearby.
Troopers discovered the conscious wife at about 10 a.m. Friday in the front seat. She was wearing a down coat, winter boots and earmuffs, with a blanket wrapped around her.
"She was pinned," said an in-law who asked not to be named. "She broke her back. She couldn't move. He tried to get out, but he was bleeding."
Rescuers found Alfred's body in the back seat - halfway out of the door.
Devastated members of the couple's Brooklyn Hasidic community gathered at the Beth Torrah synagogue in Borough Park, across the road from where the couple had lived for 15 years.
Rabbi Morton Pupko said the Langners brought up two sons, now living in Jerusalem, and a daughter who lives in Borough Park.
"He was a great man - there was no better," said a longtime friend in Montreal who was with the couple at the wedding.
Barbara Langner was in stable condition yesterday at the Fletcher Allan Health Care Center in Burlington, Vt.
Emergency Medical Technician Patty Bashaw spoke to the woman as she was being freed.
"She told me he was speaking to her husband up until 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon," she said. "She told me, 'When I screamed about my back, he would apologize.' "
Alfred's funeral was set for 1 p.m. today in Brooklyn at Shomrei Hadas Chapels on 14th Avenue and 38th Street.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01282007/news/regionalnews/death_freeze_trap_regionalnews_john_doyle_____and_leela_de_kretser.htm
A Brooklyn woman helplessly watched her husband slowly freeze to death as they lay trapped in their car for 32 hours after sliding off an icy upstate road, police said yesterday.
Barbara Langner, 58, told rescuers she had desperately yelled at her husband, Alfred, to wake up as he slipped into unconsciousness.
Barbara Langner, who broke her back, sat powerless in the passenger seat as Alfred, 63, died about 13 hours after they drove off the Interstate 87 Northway in North Hudson about 2 a.m. Thursday.
Temperatures dipped to 7 degrees below zero during the harrowing ordeal.
Langner tried to call for help on her cellphone - but there was no reception in the mountainous terrain in Adirondack Park, about 250 miles north of New York City.
An autopsy yesterday revealed Alfred, a retiree who worked for the state Department of Insurance, died of hypothermia.
The couple's maroon 1989 Lincoln Town Car sat pinned in by trees and a boulder, hidden from the view of state troopers.
Relatives began calling cops in Plattsburgh on Friday morning to report that the couple, who were driving back from a wedding in Montreal, had not returned home as expected.
An eagle-eyed trooper spotted the Lincoln only after he pulled over another car nearby.
Troopers discovered the conscious wife at about 10 a.m. Friday in the front seat. She was wearing a down coat, winter boots and earmuffs, with a blanket wrapped around her.
"She was pinned," said an in-law who asked not to be named. "She broke her back. She couldn't move. He tried to get out, but he was bleeding."
Rescuers found Alfred's body in the back seat - halfway out of the door.
Devastated members of the couple's Brooklyn Hasidic community gathered at the Beth Torrah synagogue in Borough Park, across the road from where the couple had lived for 15 years.
Rabbi Morton Pupko said the Langners brought up two sons, now living in Jerusalem, and a daughter who lives in Borough Park.
"He was a great man - there was no better," said a longtime friend in Montreal who was with the couple at the wedding.
Barbara Langner was in stable condition yesterday at the Fletcher Allan Health Care Center in Burlington, Vt.
Emergency Medical Technician Patty Bashaw spoke to the woman as she was being freed.
"She told me he was speaking to her husband up until 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon," she said. "She told me, 'When I screamed about my back, he would apologize.' "
Alfred's funeral was set for 1 p.m. today in Brooklyn at Shomrei Hadas Chapels on 14th Avenue and 38th Street.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01282007/news/regionalnews/death_freeze_trap_regionalnews_john_doyle_____and_leela_de_kretser.htm
Comments:
An autopsy was done?
GEVALD!!!!!
where is the oilam?
in eretx yisrael they fought over a body to prevent an autopsy.
GEVALD!!!!!!!!!!!GEVALD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GEVALD!!!!!!
i am feeling so sick now. GEVALD!
the tziyonim mustve been behind it
GEVALD!!!!!
where is the oilam?
in eretx yisrael they fought over a body to prevent an autopsy.
GEVALD!!!!!!!!!!!GEVALD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GEVALD!!!!!!
i am feeling so sick now. GEVALD!
the tziyonim mustve been behind it
Comment Credit ---This article posted by 
: January 28, 2007 3:59 PM
: January 28, 2007 3:59 PM
Please say tehilim for Bracha Penina Bas Zlata, who survived the tragic accident.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : January 28, 2007 8:34 PM
: January 28, 2007 8:34 PM
The only thing that moves you from this story is concern an autopsy might have been performed? Go to hell.
Terrible, just terrible. Baruch dayin emes.
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Terrible, just terrible. Baruch dayin emes.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : January 28, 2007 9:03 PM
: January 28, 2007 9:03 PM
