Mother, 2 children dead in NYC after suspended driver allegedly mows them down

A parent and her 2 young daughters were killed successful Brooklyn Saturday erstwhile a pistillate driving with a suspended licence allegedly mowed them down successful a crosswalk successful what Mayor Eric Adams called a "tragedy of Shakespearean proportion."

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a quality league the wreck happened conscionable aft 1 p.m. successful the Midwood vicinity of the New York City borough.

"I volition telephone it similar it is," Tisch said. "This was a horrific calamity caused by idiosyncratic who shouldn't person been connected the road."

The driver, identified arsenic Miriam Yarimi, 32, allegedly crashed her Audi into a Toyota Camry carrying a rideshare operator and different parent with 3 children, earlier hitting the 35-year-old parent and her 3 kids successful the crosswalk, Tisch said. The Audi past overturned.

The Audi, which struck a parent and her 3 kids, sits overturned aft the crash. (Peter Gerber)

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The 35-year-old parent and her 2 daughters, ages 6 and 8, were pronounced dead. The mother's 3rd child, a 4-year-old boy, was taken to Maimonides Medical Center and remains successful captious condition. 

The 62-year-old rideshare operator was taken to Coney Island Hospital and is successful unchangeable condition. His passengers, a parent and 3 children, were taken to Kings County Hospital with insignificant injuries. 

Yarimi was extricated from her car by the occurrence section and was taken to NYU Langone Hospital successful Brooklyn, according to officials. She is successful unchangeable condition.

"At this constituent successful the investigation, the airy series astatine the intersection has not yet been determined," Tisch said. "Speed surely whitethorn person been a factor, and investigators are moving to find whether [Yarimi] whitethorn person gone done a reddish light."

The Camry, carrying a rideshare driver, a parent and her 3 children was severely damaged successful the wreck. (Peter Gerber)

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A preliminary enactment trial was administered to measure for imaginable intoxication. 

Investigators analyse the clang site. (Peter Gerber)

Adams described the incidental arsenic "a tragic mishap of Shakespearean proportion."

"This is highly concerning and painful, not lone to the metropolis of New York successful general, but specifically to a precise close-knit community," Adams said during a quality conference. "A parent going for a elemental stroll connected a sunny time was struck and killed. As we commune for their families, this full assemblage [and] the metropolis mourns this loss."

A small girl's footwear sits connected the thoroughfare aft the wreck. (Peter Gerber)

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Adams said helium volition beryllium visiting the household astatine a infirmary Saturday afternoon.