The Vulnerable Observer by Behar Ruth

Author:Behar, Ruth [Behar, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4648-7
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)
Published: 1996-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

The Girl in the Cast

Five persons were killed early yesterday when an auto driven by a newly licensed teen-ager hurtled a dividing barrier on the Belt Parkway at the Pennsylvania Avenue exit and landed on top of an auto going in the opposite direction.

The dead included four neighborhood teen-aged friends, who were riding in the first car and a 24-year-old Hofstra College senior, who was driving the other vehicle.

The police of the Miller Avenue station house in East New York said that the car in which the four teen-agers were riding was returning from a discotheque dance at Murray the K’s World, a restaurant in Roosevelt, Long Island . . .

The car hurtled the center island divider, a foot-high concrete curb topped by a three-foot metal fence. It landed on top of an auto traveling in the opposite direction operated by Joseph J. Venturino of 46 Radcliff Road, Island Park, Long Island . . . With him was Miss Betty M. Saltz, a 20-year-old secretary employed by a motion picture firm . . .

Mr. Venturino, with split-second timing, swung his car to the right to protect Miss Saltz and took the full impact of the blow, killing [him] instantly and trapping his body in the wreckage. Miss Saltz was taken to Brookdale Hospital and held there after treatment for a fractured right leg and left collar bone and multiple lacerations. She was reported in fair condition.

Three other autos, driving behind Mr. Venturino’s car, piled into the wreckage. In the first car, Albert Behar, 32, of 141–65 85th Street, Jamaica, Queens, was driving with his wife, Rebecca, 30, a daughter, Ruth, 9, a son, Maurice, 10, and Mrs. Behar’s mother, Mrs. Esther Glinski, 60. All were taken to Brookdale Hospital, where only Ruth was detained for a fractured right leg.

—New York Times, May 1, 1966

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