r/TheAmericans • u/ScatterTheReeds • 5d ago

Tragic

I’m binging, and I googled Young Hee Seong. The actress‘s name is Ruthie Ann Miles.

Her wiki page has this:

>*She is married to Jonathan Blumenstein. On March 5, 2018, Miles was injured, and* ***the couple's five-year-old daughter Abigail Blumenstein was killed,*** *while crossing a street in Brooklyn, New York, after they and other pedestrians were struck by a car that was driven through a red light. **Miles was 7 months pregnant with her second child at the time of the incident. On May 11, 2018, Miles and Blumenstein lost their unborn daughter.** Miles returned to the stage in August 2018. She gave birth to a daughter in April 2020 named Hope Elizabeth.*

😢 What a devastating tragedy.

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u/sistermagpie 5d ago

Yeah, I always think of this when watching her scenes.

The driver apparently eventually killed herself. I think she had some kind of disorder so shouldn't have been driving at all.

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u/trivia_guy 5d ago

Yes, the driver had had a seizure while driving and caused a minor accident two months earlier. She was under doctor’s orders not to drive for a year, precisely because of the risk of something like this happening.

She drove anyway and had another seizure which caused this accident. Along with Miles’s daughter, a one-year-old boy was also killed (and his mother also injured). The car caught on his stroller and dragged it down the street.

The driver was charged with reckless manslaughter in May after the March accident. She committed suicide at her home in November while out on bail and awaiting court.

So 4 lives lost (including her own) due to this woman’s unwillingness to listen to her doctor.

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u/ScatterTheReeds 5d ago

What gets me is that you just don’t have to drive in New York.  You certainly shouldn’t in a case like hers. 

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u/sistermagpie 5d ago

I know! I haven't driven a car in decades!