A 10-year-old Fair Lawn girl who was R”L killed when a stolen Mercedes slammed into her family’s car in Bergen County on Thursday was buried on Erev Shabbos.

Miriam Avraham A”H was a sixth-grader at the Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford, NJ, and the car she was driving in was on the way to a Simchas Bais Hashoeva.

Volunteers from Misaskim of Teaneck – assisted by the Teaneck Police Department assured that proper Kavod Hames was given.

She was buried at the Cedar Park Beth El Cemetery in Paramus.

Miriam, her 14-year-old brother and a friend of the brother were passengers in a Honda Accord driven by her mother when the speeding Mercedes broadsided the Honda at a New Milford intersection shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday.

The collision sheared the Honda in half, killing Miriam and critically injuring the brother’s friend. Both were in the back seat. [Please be Mispallel for Aviezer Bouch ben Mindel Golda (Zahava)].

Miriam’s mother, Helene Avraham, and brother, Shachar, suffered minor injuries and have since been released from the hospital.

The driver of the Mercedes, 22-year-old Harold Saenz of Bergenfield, faces charges of felony murder, aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault and car theft. He remains under police guard today at Hackensack University Medical Center, where he is being treated for a broken femur and sinus fractures.

Bail has been set at $1 million cash for Saenz, who is due to appear in Superior Court in Hackensack Monday afternoon.

Saenz stole the Mercedes from a driveway on Sylvan Road in the borough. Joseph Macellaro, chief of detectives in the prosecutor’s office, said the owner either left the car running or left the keys inside while he went into his home to fetch a second set of keys for another vehicle in the driveway.

When the owner returned outside, he spotted Saenz stealing the Mercedes and gave chase in the second vehicle, at the same time dialing 911.

The crash occurred less than a mile and a half away, at the intersection of New Bridge Road and The Boulevard, though Saenz may have taken a circuitous route in an effort to shake the car’s rightful owner.

Macellaro said the crash has been incorrectly characterized as a police pursuit.

(Yehuda Drudgestein – North Jersey News)