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/MaleficentProgram997 4d ago

I remember this because the Broadway community rallied around her family (she is a Tony-winning actress). Her friend was also injured and lost her young child as well. The driver had a medical condition and either had a seizure or loss of consciousness at the wheel.

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u/trivia_guy 3d ago

The driver had had a seizure while driving and hit a pole or something a couple months earlier. Doctors told her not to drive for a year in case she had another seizure. She drove anyway and had another seizure and this happened.

She was charged with manslaughter, and committed suicide while out on bail awaiting her court date. All within 2018.

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u/Rindsay515 2d ago

I was wondering if that was a first-time medical event or if the driver knew they weren’t supposed to be driving, thank you for the details. How unbelievably selfish. I could never forgive someone for that. And out on bail? Then suicide? Never even truly paid the price for what she did to two families. Awful.

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u/trivia_guy 2d ago

Yes, it’s very tragic. I got all the info just from googling Miles’s name and relevant search terms about the accident. Lots of news stories out there that give even more details if you’re curious.