‘OH, GOD,’ MY BABY!
Moms see two kids fatally struck, one in his stroller
An out-of-control driver killed two little kids in front of their horrified moms in a Park Slope crosswalk Monday — with one dragged 100 feet while still in his stroller, authorities said.
The other child — the 4-yearold daughter of Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles — was run over and died, and her pregnant mom was injured.
Miles, 34, “was bleeding from her head. They had to cut her coat off,’’ said a witness, Leah Finnegan said.
Miles’ daughter, Abigail Blumenstein, “was flat on her back, and when the ambulance came, they were giving her CPR,’’ said another witness, June ClarkSmith, adding, “I ran to the [mom], telling her, ‘Please, Miss, stay down’ . . . She tried getting up on her knees and fell back down.’’
Miles — who won a Tony Award in 2015 for her performance in “The King and I” — was in critical but stable condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
She was heading from a community center at about 12:40 p.m. with the mother of the 1-year-old boy in the stroller, who ran up to her dying child, knelt beside him and frantically tried to revive him, a witness said.
“The mom was sitting there next to him screaming,’’ fourthyear medical student Andrew Macaluso, 26, told The Post. “She was just kind of, ‘Oh, God, this can’t be happening! Tell me this isn’t happening! What’s going on?’
“The child had blood on his face. She wipes off his face and gives him air while I’m giving the chest compressions.’’
Macaluso said the baby didn’t have a pulse when EMTs arrived at the scene on Ninth Street near Fifth Avenue.
The mom was identified by law-enforcement sources as Lauren Lew, 33, of Park Slope.
The toddler, Joshua, was the older of her two sons, said Lew’s grandmother.
“He’s a darling little boy,’’ the grandma said by phone, her voice trembling. “I still can’t believe it.’’
Lew was hospitalized in stable condition, officials said.
Dorothy Bruns, 44, of Staten Island was driving her white Volvo sedan on Ninth Street crossing Fifth Avenue when she slammed into the mothers and children, police said. She then veered into a parked vehicle, causing a chain reaction that damaged at least three more cars, law-enforcement sources said.
A baby’s shoe was among the debris left scattered in the street — and Joshua’s stroller was crushed under the Volvo’s back wheels.
Bruns told police she had a medical condition, and she was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, sources said.
A super at Bruns’ apartment building said, “I hope she didn’t have another seizure.”
“She was telling me that two months ago she had one when she was driving over the Verrazano Bridge and she stopped the car,’’ the super said, adding that Bruns has a teenage son.
Law-enforcement sources said there is video surveillance from the scene, but it was unclear whether the driver had the light.
Bruns told cops she was trying to avoid hitting a car and swerved out of the way. She remembers waking up behind the wheel but was unaware that she had hit anyone.
Police sources said she would not be held, at least for now.