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Driver who intended to hit someone else killed woman, 70

A deranged driver attempted to run over a man with her car — but only injured her target and killed a 70-year-old Brooklyn woman who was sitting on a chair outside her home instead, authorities said Wednesday.

Brenda Whidbee, 70, was sitting on Thomas S. Boyland Street near Pacific Street in Ocean Hill around 9:20 p.m. Aug. 24 when Layla Adredini — behind the wheel of a 2003 white Ford Explorer — slammed into her, authorities said. 

She was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, authorities said. 

Adredini also allegedly struck a 50-year-old man — her intended target — but only ran over his foot, police said. 

“The fact of the matter is she shouldn’t have tried to hit no one, and that would have never happened,” said Whidbee’s 64-year-old son-in-law, who declined to give his name. 

“Therefore in my book, she killed her. There is nothing nobody can tell me. She ain’t have no seizure. She wasn’t sick. She knew exactly what she was doing.”

“She didn’t know the outcome,” he added, referring to his mother-in-law’s death.

The wounded man fled after the incident, but investigators have been in touch with him, cops said. 

Adredini, who lives about two blocks from the scene, ran off into the victim’s building — but good Samaritans held her until police showed up and arrested her, authorities said. 

Whidbee’s son-in-law said his daughter was the first to let him know what had happened. 

“I was coming from work, and all of a sudden, my phone was going crazy,” he said. 

When he pulled over and picked up, he heard his daughter crying.

“I said, ‘Why are you crying for?’” he said. “[My daughter] said, ‘Grandma just got run over.’”

“I ran every red light in Brooklyn. When I got there, I saw the chaos,” he added. “When I saw the damage the car had done, I knew grandma was 50-50.”

She was alive when she got to the hospital, “but every bone in her body was broken,” her son-in-law said.

“First of all, I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I still could not fantasize mama leaving like that. What [a] way to go.”

He described Whidbee as a mother, grandmother and “church-going woman.”

“She was the best,” he added with a smile. “My daughter and my son, they stay [with their grandmother] because they just like being there.”

Adredini was charged with murder and attempted murder, police said.

“She was laughing when the police came,” the victim’s son-in-law recalled. “Are you kidding me? She also was running from the police.”

“The wrong person is dead,” he said. “All I know is she committed murder. The wrong person is living. All I know is that person doesn’t deserve to be alive, period. [My mother-in-law] should still be here.”

He said he can’t forgive the woman behind the wheel. 

“Ain’t no way in the world,” he said. “She did something really messed up and I’ll never forgive her. God will understand.”