THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN

A well known Gabbai Tzedakah from Eretz Yisrael was badly wounded in a crash on Ocean Parkway in Flatbush on Tuesday night.

Please be mispallel for Nosson ben Yehudis Yittel

Sources tell YWN that Nosson (Nati) Yaffe was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle when the driver lost control near Ave K, striking an oncoming vehicle in the opposite direction head-on.

Flatbush Hatzalah responded to the scene within moments of the crash, at around 10:30PM, and transported Yaffe to Maimonides Hospital. Yaffe and the young bochur who was driving were enroute to daven Maariv at Laundau’s. The driver, as well as the driver of the other vehicle, were not as seriously wounded.

Yaffe was diagnosed with at least 13 broken ribs and a broken sternum bone. He also suffered a collapsed lung. Yaffe is expected to make a full recovery B”EH, but is in a lot of  pain. Read more at YWN