To SHOCKED: Side air bags could have saved his life, depending of the force of impact (speed and weight of impacting vehicle).
To all the others clamoring for tougher laws against DUI drivers, you all got it wrong: if the criminal that killed Moe Berkowitz doesn’t know what to expect if he drinks and drives, he will climb into his car thinking that nothing will happen, but if there is a CONTINUOUS campaign warning the population about the horrors of car crashes for DUI than definitely the results would be better. Of course, the question is, who should pay for it?

Can someone please send me the contat to his family?

When you choose to drink alcohol and get into a car and drive, you risk ending your life or someone else’s…maybe never seeing your friends or family again. This is a horrible tragedy and this moron who chose to drink and drive should have his freedom taken away for as long as possible. Everyone that drinks and drives should. DRUNK DRIVING KILLS PEOPLE…period…and they laws need to much more severe than they are. This is NYC and there is NO NEED to drive anywhere after you’ve been drinking. There are subways, buses, taxis and livery cabs everywhere…it’s moronic to drive a car and risk someone’s life.

My heart goes out to the Berkowitz family and anyone else who have been harmed by such selfish, negligent behavior.

I wish u rest in peace

One think is sure NYPD is the worst police dep. in U.S.A.

THIS IS HORRIBLE. THE LAWS HAVE TO GET TUFFER ! THIS IS INSANE….

You were the nicest guy in the whole entire world!! Everything you did had a purpose!!!!! We were very close and I will miss you!!!! May you rest in peace!
I LOVE YOU MOE!!!!!!

its so sad that someone was killed becasue of an irrespeonisible driver. There is nothing wrong with drinking, but then don’t get behind the wheel. Everyone knows the risk fo drunk drviving and people do it anyway. My heart and prayers go out to his family, students and collegues!

I am a Brooklyn College student and it hurts to lose one of our own. You were and are and always will be loved. Goodbye Moshe, rest now.
Anthony A.

OMG this is my old friend! What a sweet guy! I haven’t seen him in years, and now I see him here! Moe, you did so much god in your life, I can’t believe this tragedy. To the guy who walked away after killing my friend, I hope you realize what you did. You had fun, you drank and drove, you killed, and you walked away. You left thousands of people hurting and crying in your wake, and you ended the life of a wonderful young guy who cared, love and helped many many people in his short time here. Rest In Peace old friend, your in my prayers and my heart.

I love you mr. Berkowitz you were my best teacher ever. It will be hard to go on without you. You always tried to help me do the right thing and I will make you proud. Rest in peace

I did not know Moshe Berkowitz personally, but I remember him from Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchok. I never seen him without a smile on his face. He always had friends flocking around him because he was such a nice and a popular guy. He was also a great learner, highly intelligent and achieved a lot in his academic goals.

Moshe will forever be remembered by countless of friends and people that he has touched in his short life.

We need to lobby for NYS government to make our DUI laws much tougher. There should be an automatic sentencing for minimum of second degree murder for all drunk drivers that kill innocent people like Moshe. Manslaughter with 5 years maximum sentence IS NOT justice.

LOVE YOU MOSHE YOU WERE THE BEST TEACHER WITH OUT YOU THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOTHING TO ME. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

i was a very good friend of moshe he was such a nice guy may he rest in peace

love u mo may u rest in peace from bircas shmuel

Whoever wrote this was obviously trying to take the fault off the drunk driver.
For whatever reasons.

If you want the news without stupid personal input, you can find out what happened from more reliable news sources. Not this one.

I personally knew the boy who died and half the information here was tampered with. So why believe the rest?

oh, and if you would see the state of moshe’s car, like i did, you would see there is no possible way for him to have survived. moshe didn’t lose control. the drunk driver hit moshe’s car right at the driver side door.

paul, are you kidding? how is the “yeshiva driver” at fault? moshe was minding his own business and a drunk driver killed him. jewish on not jewish, a drunk driver killed a 25 year old man with his whole life ahead of him. why does race have to be a factor in this tragedty?

i cant tell if you are serious. If you are, he lost control AFTER being hit by a speeding, intoxicated driver. How is there fault on the Yeshiva guys side? IT IS ILLEGAL TO DRIVE DRUNK AND SPEED. This death was caused by the wreckless behavior of the driver who is now rightfully in custody. Take a course in common sense Paul. Hope you one day get into same situation so you can see more clearly what its like to get hit by a drunk driver!

It’s not clear from the article how the accident happened and who’s fault was it. No one should drive when intoxicated. Period.

And such a hottie, too!

May he rest in peace. It’s such a tragedy!!

WHAT !?

Obviously the first comment was deleted by Yahoo very quickly to get the other response.

May you him rest in peace