Samir Saidi, the husband of the woman and two girls who were killed in a fiery crash in 2022, detailed how he struggles to sleep at night because thoughts about his family’s final moments run in his mind.
“There is not one single day that I haven’t cried for my loss,” Saidi said on the stand, adding that he wishes he could have done something to save the lives of his wife, Cynthia Orsatelliz, and daughters Sofia, 15, and Maria, 12.
On June 27, 2022, Julius Bernstein, 27, was speeding at nearly 100 mph on the 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village when he rammed his Dodge Charger into a car turning left from the eastbound lanes at Harbor Island Drive. After the crash, Bernstein jumped out of his car and ran. He hadn’t had a driver’s license since 2016.
Bernstein sat quietly as he was sentenced on Friday afternoon to 45 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation by Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Zachary James. In September, a Miami jury found Bernstein guilty of three counts of vehicular homicide as well as other charges linked to the fatal collision. The sentence is 15 years per count of vehicular homicide…