Wigmaker Miriam Yarimi — who claimed the “satan” was in her eyes after she mowed down a mother and her two younger daughters — is now blaming a “medical emergency” for the horrific Brooklyn crash.
The gorgeous new declare was made by an incarcerated Yarimi in a handwritten notice filed as a part of the civil circumstances introduced towards her by the household of Natasha Saada, the mom killed alongside Ocean Parkway.
Yarimi, 33, wrote the notice forward of a listening to Thursday a few request from Saada’s household {that a} Brooklyn decide discover her chargeable for the crash, leaving simply damages for a possible civil jury to resolve.
“It’s my rivalry that however for the medical emergency that I skilled this accident wouldn’t have occurred,” she wrote. “Due to this fact I’m not chargeable for this accident & plaintiffs’ motions should be denied of their entirety.”
The notice was dated March 26, practically one yr to the day after Yarimi drove her Audi at roughly 70 mph down Ocean Parkway, slammed into an Uber and flipped her automotive — hanging the Saada household as they left Shabbat providers.
Saada, 32, and her daughters Diana, 8, and Debra, 5, have been killed, whereas her 4-year-old son Philip was grievously injured.
Legal professional Herschel Kulefsky, who represents the Saada household, referred to as Yarimi’s declare of a medical episode “outrageous” — particularly as a result of she had by no means made it earlier than, even whereas going through felony prices.
“It’s referred to as a sham excuse, which the courtroom ought to acknowledge immediately,” he mentioned.
“It’s for one function solely, which is to keep away from civil legal responsibility.”
And Yarimi hasn’t precisely stayed quiet concerning the March 29, 2025, crash.
An unhinged Yarimi hatefully cursed out first responders on the crash scene, whereas ranting she was “possessed” and had “the satan in me,” prosecutors and sources have mentioned.
Yarimi, who made a number of crazed claims through the years, had racked up greater than 93 site visitors violations in her automotive sporting the license plate “WIGM8KER,” information present. She drove on a suspended license through the crash.
She ultimately pleaded responsible to manslaughter in a sweetheart deal that acknowledged she acted recklessly — and tearfully accepted a light-weight 3- to 9-year jail sentence in November.
“I settle for full duty for my actions,” she mentioned throughout her sentencing.
However after Saada’s household filed a pair of lawsuits — together with a wrongful loss of life go well with — towards Yarimi, she modified her tune on whether or not she acted recklessly.
As a substitute, she laid the groundwork for a civil protection by contending she suffered an unspecified medical emergency that made her lose consciousness roughly 5 seconds into driving onto Ocean Parkway.
“After I regained consciousness, my steering wheel airbag was deploying & concurrently felt (sic) an impression to my automobile,” she wrote. “Then my automobile proceeded to flip over a couple of instances & lastly got here to a halt the other way up.”
Kulefsky argued Yarimi by no means introduced up the alleged medical episode till she confronted being on the hook for civil damages.
He mentioned he knowledgeable Saada’s household about Yarimi’s declare Tuesday.
“Clearly, they’re outraged,” he mentioned.
Yarimi’s lawyer Michael Maddaloni didn’t return a request for remark.
