Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that Miriam Yarimi, 32, of Midwood, Brooklyn, has been arraigned on an indictment charging her with reckless manslaughter and other charges for allegedly speeding through a steady red light before crashing into an Uber that was waiting for a family to finish crossing the street, plowing through the pedestrians as her car rolled over. A 34-year-old mother and her daughters, 5 and 8, died from the impact, and her 4-year-son suffered serious injuries.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This horrific fatal crash was one of the worst I’ve seen in over 25 years as a prosecutor. It wasn’t an accident. This defendant’s unconscionably dangerous driving wiped out a family. The consequences of her flouting traffic laws and commonsense were disastrous, and we will now seek to hold her fully accountable for this criminally reckless behavior.”
Yarimi was arraigned today by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun on an indictment charging her with multiple counts of second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, and other related counts. She was ordered held without bail and to return to court on June 11, 2025. The defendant is facing a maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison if convicted of the top count.
The District Attorney said that, according to the investigation, on March 29, 2025, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the defendant was driving a 2023 Audi, turning onto Ocean Parkway. Video surveillance shows her car drive through a red light a block before the crash, narrowly avoiding other cars and continue north on Ocean Parkway.
At the next intersection, with Quentin Road, the mother, Natasha Saada, 34, was crossing Ocean Parkway from west to east, holding hands with her three children, Diana, 8, Deborah, 5, and Philip, 4. The evidence shows that a Toyota Camry was in the process of turning right from Quentin Road onto Ocean Parkway and was waiting for the pedestrians to finish crossing.
When the family was a step or two from the sidewalk, the Audi driven by the defendant sped through the intersection against the light, smashed into the back of the turning Toyota and plowed through the victims with her car continuing to roll over, stopping about 130 feet away. According to evidence obtained from the black box, the Audi was traveling at about 68 mph (in a 25-mph zone), was at full throttle (suggesting the gas pedal was floored) and zero brake was applied.
The mother and two daughters were killed at the scene. Her son suffered skull fractures, brain bleeding and had a kidney removed. The Toyota had five occupants – the Uber driver, a mother and her three kids – who sustained minor injuries. The Audi ended up upside down and had to be cut to get the defendant out. She suffered minor physical injuries.
The District Attorney thanked detectives from the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad for their assistance in the investigation.
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5 to 15 years max. How disgustingly pathetic is that. Welcome to your liberal hell hole. Everyone’s screaming for life and I knew all along that that’s what it would be. She’ll be back on the road in her 40s
This driver should get the maximum prison sentence for what she did and enjoy herself there!!!! She deserves it for what she did!!! I wish she would have been killed instantly instead of the innocent mother and kids. She should never have been driving if this is how she drives. No excuses for this!!!
facing a maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison What a travesty of justice; Should be facing life without possibility of parole, or rest of her life locked in Barrel stocks, or death penalty by having a car ordered to ram into her in full public view to be a deterrent to other suspended drivers.
It’s very sad for the victims and for this nebach woman that hopefully comes to hr senses and does Teshuva.
15 years is probably per count where in this case there should be 3 of them
It’s still should be higher IMO
D.A. Gonzalez should now recuse himself. For him to say, “It wasn’t an accident” demonstrates not only his ignorance of the law (vehicular manslaughter is an accident that causes death) but his maladroit penchant for the dramatic. Such a statement on his part is not only exaggeration, but completely false as well. Further, it gives an “in” for the defendant’s counsel. (If I were Miriam Yarimi’s lawyer, I would be all over that statement.) Yes, Yarimi was careless, negligent, and reckless. Yes, she caused the tragic deaths of three innocent people including two dear children. And yes–it was an accident.
The story, as reported above, hardly punishes this terrible person. 5-15 years seems like a mockery of life. To think that Shalom Rubashkin was set to sit for 27 years for crimes he really wasn’t guilty of – no life was taken – yet here 3 precious lives were taken R”l and it was not an accident; she seriously broke laws. Something doesn’t seem right.
“Five to fifteen years”!! She can kill 3 people and only get 5 years???!!!
If she regrets it and gets the right help, maybe she should get another chance.
@ari really man? DA is right like we see in gemora theres shogeg and shogeg karov lemezid. This is the karov lemizid or even karov lepshia not an accident…. just bec something isnt done “on purpose” doesn’t make it an accident like we see from our gemoras….
Learn to read. It’s 5-15 years on the top count. She has many additional charges as well. If found guilty on numerous counts & the judge has the sentences run consecutively instead of concurrently she will be locked up for quite a long time.
I think they said 5 to 15 for each.
You people are all crazy and dont have the right to talk about this more then the grieving father and husband. I know him. He thinks she should be dismissed WITHOUT EVEN A FINE!!
Ya Know why??? Cuz hes a yid and doesnt think a Bas Yisroel, no matter her current religious level, should be violated in the prison system. I’ll tell you, my wife knew the nifteres and her older daughter AH and they would say the same! Cuz theyre Oyhev Yisroel!!!!!! grow a heart! you dont think shes broken and cant live w herself?? She has more of a heart then anyone who commented here, thats for sure….
Well as nice as the husband is that’s not what Jewish law would say, that’s what his personal feelings say. Someone who is a threat to Public Safety needs to be put away
Wow. I am astounded by some of the comments here. I would humbly suggest that every commenter here either develop a kesher with an adam gadol or rav so you can learn how to approach questions like these from a torah perspective and not just from the boich (from your emotions). I am not even saying for certain that some of the commenters aren’t correct, but the pure emotion and lack of torah logic, sources, and simple levelheadedness in coming to these conclusions is astounding. If you don’t have access to a Rav, try listening to www Dot rebgershonribner Dot com or something similar.