A second family injured in a horrific Brooklyn car crash that killed a mother and her two children said they were lucky the out-of-control wigmaker behind the wheel of a speeding sedan didn’t kill them, too.
Mahbuba Ahmedova, 35, and her two children were passengers in an Uber that was struck by an Audi along Ocean Parkway in Midwood on Saturday before the speeding car careened into the crosswalk, hitting 35-year-old Natasha Saada and her three young children, two of whom were killed, police said.
“We just got into the Uber, and the crash happened a few minutes after,” Ahmedova said. “It’s really sad, many people lost their lives.”
Ahmedova said she and her three children had been shopping along Kings Highway around 1 p.m. when they decided to take an Uber home.
But minutes after climbing into a Toyota Camry, their hired car was rammed by a speeding Audi whose unlicensed driver ran through a red light while operating at twice the speed limit, according to cops.
The Audi then hit the pedestrians in the crosswalk before it flipped over. The Audi driver, 32-year-old Miriam Yarimi, had to be extracted from her vehicle, cops said.
“We were coming from Kings Highway to go home and we got into an Uber, and then three or five minutes later the crash happened,” Ahmedova’s son, Shakhzod, 12, said. “After the car crash, we just saw the car flipped over and two kids on the ground. We were scared.”
Shakhzod said they watched helplessly as medics tried to save the mother and her kids.
“Everything happened so fast,” he said. “We didn’t see the other car until it flipped over. We saw everyone panicking, and people going towards the kids on the ground trying to help them. They were giving CPR to the kids.”
Natasha Saada, 35, who was in the crosswalk with her three young children at Ocean Parkway and Quentin Road, and her two daughters, Deborah, 5, and Diana, 8, were rushed to Maimonides Medical Center but couldn’t be saved, dying within 20 minutes of each other, according to police.
Saada’s 4-year-old son remained in critical condition Monday.
Ahmedova and her children suffered a variety of injuries. The mother has pain her face, while Shakhzod has back and wrist pain. A second son, 6, had his arm in a sling. A daughter, 4, escaped without suffering any injuries.
“Everyone is holding up okay,” Shakhzod said of his family. “It was all just very scary for all of us. We would never expect that to happen.”
Both drivers suffered minor injuries.
Investigators believe Yarimi was going about 50 mph in the 25-mph zone, police sources said.
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Diana Saada, 8, and Deborah Saada, 5, were killed Saturday, March 29, 2025 with their mother Natasha Saada (not pictured) when they were fatally struck by an unlicensed driver on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, police said. Their 4-year-old brother was critically injured in the crash. (Obtained by Daily News)
She was charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, failure to yield to a red light and speeding, cops said.
She was driving with a suspended license, a consequence of an insurance lapse, according to police sources.
After the crash, Yarimi told responding medics she was “possessed,” police said.
After being taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in stable condition, Yarimi was transferred to the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital, law enforcement sources said. Her arraignment is pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Yarimi, a Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer, recently won a $2 million lawsuit against the NYPD.
Yarimi won the settlement from the city in December after she filed a lawsuit alleging NYPD Officer George Mastrokostas repeatedly raped her for several years after falsely arresting her when she was 14, public records show.
In January, Yarimi filed a notice of claim indicating she would be suing the city and Coney Island Hospital for $5 million, stemming from an incident in October when NYPD officers pulled her out of bed and brought her to the psychiatric ward.
