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What Happened
A 40-year-old Hewlett resident died Friday, August 21, 2026, after her car left the roadway and plunged into the swimming pool at her home, according to JNS. She was a teacher, a math coordinator, and the mother of four children.
She lost control of her vehicle, which entered the pool on the property. She did not drown, a source familiar with the family told JNS. She was conscious and able to place a call for help after the car went into the water. She died in an ambulance en route to the hospital.
Irving Place Minyan, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Woodmere, N.Y., announced her death on Friday afternoon. The announcement identified her as a member of the congregation’s community.
She was a teacher and math coordinator at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a Jewish day school in Nassau County. The school serves communities across the Five Towns area, which includes Hewlett, where the crash occurred.
No additional details about the exact time of the crash, the specific street at the Hewlett residence, or the responding emergency agencies were available in initial reports. JNS, which broke the story, attributed the account of her final moments to a source familiar with the family.
Location & Road Context
Hewlett is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, bordered by Woodmere to the southeast. Residential properties in the area commonly feature in-ground pools. The incident did not involve a public roadway in the conventional traffic sense — the car entered the pool at a private residence, making this a single-vehicle crash on private property rather than a public-road incident.
Woodmere, where Irving Place Minyan is located, sits less than two miles from Hewlett. For road and community context in this part of Nassau County, see our coverage of Hewlett and Five Towns area roads.
Updates
- Aug 21, 2026: Additional reporting merged into this article: “Five Towns Hebrew Teacher Killed As Car Plunges Into Backyard Pool, Police Say” (source)