Will Park Slope tragedy prompt change?
Days after two young children were run over and killed in Brooklyn, state lawmakers are pushing for the passage of a package of bills they say would make streets safer. Abigail Blumenstein, 4, and Joshua Lew, 1, were killed when the driver of a white Volvo, identified as Dorothy Bruns, 44, stopped and then sped through the red light at 9th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope, running over the children and their mothers who were crossing the street. Abigail's mother, the Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, is pregnant. Her family says it is miraculous that her unborn baby survived. Lauren Lew, Joshua's mother, was also injured.