New York State lawmakers want to pass a bill to force chronically reckless drivers to install speed-limiting devices in their vehicles after an unlicensed driver fatally struck a mother and her two children crossing a Midwood intersection in March. Brooklyn State Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assembly member Emily Gallagher reintroduced a bill that would force drivers with at least six speeding tickets in the last year, and those with license suspensions for reckless driving, to install a device preventing them from exceeding the speed limit by more than five miles per hour.
The driver in the March crash, 32-year-old Miriam Yarimi, would have been required under the proposed law to have such a device in her car. She racked up 99 parking and camera violations between August 2023 and March 23, city data shows.
Yarimi struck and killed 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her daughters, Diana and Deborah, as they were crossing Ocean Parkway just after 1:00pm on March 29. Saada’s four-year-old son was also injured. Police charged Yarimi with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless driving, speeding, failure to yield and driving with a suspended license. Under the legislation, violators would be charged with a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.
Source: Crain’s New York Business
