A Brooklyn mom who was with her kids in an Uber struck by a speeding wigmaker in a deadly crash wept Tuesday as she recalled first thinking it was her own children she saw lying dead in the street afterward.
Mahbuba Ahmedova, 35, told The Post how she and her three young children were bruised and battered but feel fortunate to have survived Saturday’s wreck that left a 32-year-old mother and her two young daughters lying dead on Ocean Parkway.
“I got knocked out [from the impact],” Ahmedova said through tears. “When I opened my eyes, I saw two kids were killed, and I thought they were my kids.
“But my kids were sitting down” in another spot in the street, she said.
Miriam Yarimi, a 35-year-old Brooklyn wigmaker, was allegedly driving as fast as 50 mph — twice the 25 mph speed limit — around 1 p.m. when police said she blew through a red light, struck the Uber and flipped over.
Yarimi’s 2023 Audi then careened into mom Natasha Saada, her two daughters, Diana, 8, and Debra, 5, and son Philip, 4, as the family walked with the light in the crosswalk. Philip was the only one of the four to survive and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Yarimi — who was driving without a license, insurance or registration at the time– is now being held at Bellevue Hospital on three counts of manslaughter, police said.
Ahmedova and her young family — Shukrona Ibodilloev, 4, Sakhruz Ibodilloev, who turned 6 on Tuesday, and 12-year-old Shakhzod Ibodilloev — were hurt in the crash.
Shakhzod said his mom and siblings had been shopping on Kings Highway and were heading home in the Uber when they were suddenly struck after about 5 minutes on the road.
“I didn’t really know what happened,” the youngster told The Post. “But once I opened my eyes, I saw two people on the ground and a car flipped over. My little brother injured his shoulder. I think he broke it, they gave him a sling. “My mom and my little siblings were in the back, and I was sitting in the front.
“I don’t really understand how it happened. We are just so grateful for being alive. We just are grateful,” the boy said.
Thousands of people attended a funeral service for the Saadas on Sunday before their bodies were flown to Israel for burial, according to neighbors and sources.
Helping to bury his wife and two little girls in Israel was husband and dad Sidney Saada, who had been home taking care of the family’s fourth child, a baby, when the horror crash occurred.
“I don’t think about [Yarimi],” a pal of Sidney’s named Jack told The Post on Tuesday. “I think about my friend who lost his daughters.
“I saw him right after it happened. He was distraught. He was crying. His eyes were red.”
A memorial propped up near the scene of the deadly cash near the intersection of Quentin Road and Ocean Parkway, with three sets of candles and pink and white roses marking the spot.
“Rest in the most beautiful peace, dear family,” a hand-written sign left at the scene says. “Justice will be served. Peace, love and good vibes to the family, friends and community of those lost.
“Brooklyn comes together,” the sign says.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts
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