{"id":41590,"date":"2018-03-07T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=41590"},"modified":"2018-03-11T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:04:22","slug":"2-children-killed-broadway-actress-among-3-injured-in-brooklyn-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/2-children-killed-broadway-actress-among-3-injured-in-brooklyn-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children killed, Broadway actress among 3 injured in Brooklyn accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1524826\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(JTA) \u2014 Two children were killed by a car that hit them on a pedestrian crossing in Brooklyn, seriously injuring their mothers, including the Tony Award-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and another man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_41591\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41591\" class=\"wp-image-41591 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41591\" class=\"wp-image-41591 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ruthie-miles.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-41591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruthie Ann Miles with husband Jonathan Blumenstein at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 2016. (Larry Busacca\/Getty Images for NARAS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miles, whose real name is Ruthie Ann Blumenstein, is in the hospital and her 4-year-old daughter Abigail has died after they were struck by a car that ran a red light while they were crossing the street, according to WNBC-TV New York. Miles, who is pregnant, is said to be in stable condition. She is married to economic consultant Jonathan Blumenstein.<\/p>\n<p>In the accident, which happened at 1 p.m. on Monday, March 5, at Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, the second mother also sustained serious injuries. Her 1-year-old son also died. A fifth victim, a 46-year-old man, also was hit by the car.<\/p>\n<p>The two children were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News reported that the driver claimed to have suffered a seizure and does not remember the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Miles won a Tony Award for her role in the 2015 Broadway revival of \u201cThe King and I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Broadway community, including Ben Platt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kristin Chenoweth and Anthony Rapp, has offered its condolences to Miles and her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incredible woman of unimaginable kindness and goodness and talent is going through the absolutely unthinkable,\u201d Platt wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as 44-year-old Dorothy Burn, had not been charged as of Tuesday afternoon. Burn\u2019s Volvo was stopped at a red light before beginning to inch into the intersection. Police said that Burn, whose car was cited four previous times for running red lights, began to speed up as pedestrians started to cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a full investigation underway,\u201d Mayor Bill de Blasio said. \u201cThis loss of life is tragic and painful for all of us, especially parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The intersection where the crash occurred, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, has been the scene of 10 traffic injuries since 2014, and one other pedestrian fatality in 2016, the Daily Forward reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been calling for changes on this street and streets like it for years, and nothing has been done,\u201d Park Slope resident and rally organizer Doug Gordon told amNY.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"2%20children%20killed%2C%20Broadway%20actress%20among%203%20injured%20in%20Brooklyn%20accident\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7122],"tags":[8790,8795,9225,8788,9224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41592,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590\/revisions\/41592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}