Ruthie Ann Miles has lost her unborn child two months after the Tony Award-winning actress lost another child in Brooklyn pedestrian-vehicle accident, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
Miles was 30 weeks pregnant when she was hit by a car that drove through a busy crosswalk in Park Slope on March 5. Miles's 4-year-old daughter, Abigail Blumstein, and another child, 20-month-old Joshua Lew, were killed that day.
Miles and her husband Jonathan Blumenstein were expecting the baby girl this month, the New York Daily News reported.
"At the time of the crash Ruthie was pregnant and was severely injured. This past Friday Ruthie and Jonathan lost their baby, Sophia Rosemary Wong Blumenstein," family attorney Ben Rubinowitz said, according to the Daily News. "The pain suffered by Ruthie and Jonathan is nearly impossible to fathom."
The Daily News wrote that Miles earned a Tony in 2015 for her performance in "The King and I."
The driver of the vehicle, Dorothy Bruns, 44, from Staten Island, has been charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, assault, and reckless driving, the Post reported. Bruns faces up to 15 years behind bars if convicted on all charges.
The Daily News wrote that Bruns, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, seizures, and failing health, had her license suspended two days after the crash. The newspaper said Bruns had eight previous tickets for red-light and speed cameras violations prior to the accident.
Bruns reportedly collided with a city housing authority worker six months prior to the fatal accident, injuring the worker's shoulder, ankle and wrist and then driving away, the Daily News said. The worker, though, managed to get Bruns' license plate number to file a report, but police never followed up, the newspaper said.
"This should never happen," Mayor Bill de Blasio said, according to the Daily News after learning Bruns history. "She should never have been allowed to be driving a car after what we know."
The Daily News wrote the Bruns was driving her vehicle in April against her doctor's orders not to drive.
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