NEW YORK — A girl is dealing with a number of expenses after she crashed right into a household out for a stroll in Brooklyn, killing a mom and her two youngsters in what New York City Mayor Eric Adams described as a “tragic accident of a Shakespearean proportion.”
Miriam Yarimi was charged hours after the Saturday afternoon crash with three counts every of felony negligent murder, manslaughter and assault within the second diploma in addition to a number of different expenses.
Police mentioned Yarimi was driving on a suspended license and extra expenses indicated she was rushing and did not yield after stopping at a purple gentle when she collided with one other car after which into the household strolling within the crosswalk.
“I’ll name it like it’s. This was a horrific tragedy attributable to somebody who shouldn’t have been on the highway,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch instructed reporters at crash scene. “A mom and two younger youngsters killed. One other little one preventing for his life. A household and a neighborhood devastated.”
A telephone quantity for Yarimi couldn’t be discovered. Calls to the Kings County courts weren’t answered and there was no info within the court docket system about who is perhaps representing her.
Tisch mentioned Yarimi’s Audi rear-ended a Toyota round 1 p.m. Each drivers had minor accidents, as did one other grownup and three youngsters within the Toyota. Yarimi needed to be extracted from the wreck from her car after it flipped over.
The collision despatched the Audi into the pedestrians, who have been within the crosswalk earlier than the car overturned, authorities mentioned. The 35-year-old girl and her 6- and 8-year-old daughters have been pronounced lifeless on the scene, and the 4-year-old boy was hospitalized in important situation.
“That is extraordinarily regarding and painful, not solely to the Metropolis of New York on the whole, however particularly to a really shut knit group,” Adams mentioned. “A mom gone for a easy stroll on a sunny day was struck and killed. As we pray for his or her households and this complete group, the town mourns this loss.”
