NYC Lawyers Blame Pedestrian Parents in Crash That Killed 3-Month-Old

The family was walking on the sidewalk when NYPD pursued a driver the wrong way down a one-way street, causing a crash that killed the infant.

By Erin Marquis
Yesterday 3:20PM

Lawyers for the City of New York submitted a brief this week that blamed the death of a 3-month-old baby killed by a reckless driver last year in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on her grieving parents. Because really, they should have known how dangerous it is to exist on a New York sidewalk.

Julien Mong and Marion Guillemin lost their infant daughter Apolline Mong-Guillemin on September 11, 2021. That evening, the family was out for a stroll when Tyrik Mott drove the wrong way down a one-way street while fleeing police. Mott hit another driver, forcing that car on to the curb and into the small family. The second car hit Mong, Guillemin and their daughter, launching the 3-month-old from her stroller. Mott had a long history of traffic violations, according to AMNY:

Cops said Mott tried to steal another car after the collision and they cuffed him on charges of attempted robbery, grand larceny, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and attempted unauthorized use of a vehicle.

Mott’s 2017 Honda Civic has a staggering 160 traffic violations since mid-2017 attached to its Pennsylvania license plates — which were captured on the scene by journalist Liam Quigley — amounting to almost $14,000 in fines.

That includes a whopping 91 tickets for speeding in school zones and 13 times that car’s driver ran red lights in the city, according to the online database How’s My Driving NY.

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