A man has sued a driver in the Skverer rebbe’s motorcade for civil damages after his father was killed when a car from the motorcade veered into the opposite lane and caused the 62-year-old’s death.

The driver, Chaim Gordon, 24, was driving his Ford Explorer in a motorcade carrying the prominent Hasidic rabbi down Route 6 in New York in August 2022 when he crossed into oncoming traffic at 76 miles per hour in a 50 miles per hour zone. Gordon lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a Nissan Xterra driven by Iksong Jin, who died following the accident.

Though he initially faced a harsher criminal charge of reckless driving, Gordon ultimately avoided any criminal charges, receiving an $886 fine and nine points on his license.

In the lawsuit, from April, Jin’s son, Brian Jin, claims that the father died because of Gordon’s “negligent, wanton, reckless and careless” driving.

Reached by Shtetl, Brian said he had no plans to sue the Skver rebbe, David Twersky, himself.

In June, Gordon’s attorney, of the Law Office of Correia, Conway & Stiefeld, filed an answer to the complaint saying that Jin “assumed the risk for the conduct in which he was engaged.”