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State lawmakers propose driving restrictions in wake of tragic car crash
Doctors would be required to report drivers who have “an impairing ailment’’ to the state DMV, and the agency could then suspend his or her license, according to proposed legislation detailed Friday.
State Assemblyman Robert Carroll and state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, speaking at the scene of Monday’s Park Slope crash that killed two little kids, said they introduced the bill this week in response to the horror.
The crash driver, who had a valid license, told cops that she suffers from multiple sclerosis, seizures and heart issues.
Doctors are currently encouraged but not required to report such health problems to the DMV.
“This didn’t need to happen . . . This was preventable,” Carroll said, referring to the crash, at a press conference at Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street.
The Brooklyn lawmakers also introduced a bill to establish “escalating vehicle-registration suspensions for repeated traffic-control-signal violations,” so that if a driver received six violations within 12 months, it would lead to an automatic 15-day registration suspension.
Twelve violations in a 36-month period would lead to a 90-day registration suspension.
The car used by Park Slope crash driver Dorothy Bruns had been cited 12 times since 2016, including for running red lights and speeding in school zones.
“If we were able to pass these laws, if we were able to do that, we’d be able to make our streets safer,” Carroll said.
Park Slope mother Amy Cohen, whose son, Sammy Cohen Eckstein, 12, was killed by a van in the neighborhood in 2014, joined the politicians to plead for action.
“These are preventable crashes. We have the solutions,” Cohen said at the press conference.
“My heart aches for those families whose children are killed here. My son was killed just a few blocks away,” said Cohen, adding, “Driving is a privilege, not a right.”
Abigail Blumenstein, 4, and 20-month-old Joshua Lew, were fatally struck in the crosswalk Monday while they were with their moms, who are close friends.
Abigail’s pregnant mother, Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and Joshua’s mom, Lauren Lew, were also injured in the crash, as well as another male pedestrian. Miraculously, Miles’ unborn child was unharmed.
A source close to the family told The Post on Friday that Miles will likely remain in the hospital until her baby is born.
Miles was recently moved out of the intensive-care unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
But the source noted that Miles “is not OK — not physically, not emotionally.
“This is hard on everyone.”
Additional reporting by Paul Martinka
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