{"id":205666,"date":"2026-04-22T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:01:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-woman-pled-guilty-to-killing-3-in-crash-now-blaming-medical-episode-in-civil-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205666\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Woman Pled Guilty To Killing 3 In Crash Now Blaming Medical Episode In Civil Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman who pleaded guilty to killing three people in a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/fdny-9-people-hurt-4-critically-in-ocean-parkway-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash that killed a Brooklyn mother and her two children<\/a> is now blaming a medical episode on the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Miriam Yarimi accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the crash that killed 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her 5- and 8-year-old daughters. It also injured her son Philip, leaving him in the hospital for months.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Yarimi previously <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/brooklyn-woman-expected-in-court-today-after-deadly-gravesend-crash1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded not guilty<\/a> to manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She cried and apologized in court in November, saying she<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/woman-sentenced-to-3-to-9-years-in-prison-for-gravesend-crash-that-killed-brooklyn-mother-her-2-children\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;accepts full responsibility for her actions.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Now, in a separate civil suit that the Saada family filed against her for damages, Yarimi says a medical episode is to blame for the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An affidavit she filed reads, &#8220;After traveling on Ocean Parkway for approximately five seconds, I had a medical emergency which caused me to lose consciousness. It is my contention that but for the medical emergency that I experienced, this accident would not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hershel Kulefsky, the Saada family&#8217;s lawyer for the civil suit, says he thinks it&#8217;s an attempt to get out of paying damages.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting. It&#8217;s outrageous. It&#8217;s all about her not wanting to, you know, she wants to keep her money in her pocket, not in their pocket,&#8221; said Kulefsky.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 previously reported that Yarimi was driving on a suspended license and three times the speed limit when she crashed. When she accepted the plea deal, she admitted in court that her reckless driving caused the crash. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cShe didn&#8217;t have the story until this motion was made. She never said it to the cops. She didn\u2019t say to anyone. She didn&#8217;t say in criminal court,&#8221; said Kulefsky.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to Yarimi&#8217;s lawyer, but hasn&#8217;t yet heard back. The civil suit is expected to be heard in court this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who pleaded guilty to killing three people in a crash that killed a Brooklyn mother and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-205666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}