Refugio County, TX: A car accident is everyone's worst nightmare, as you never know when, and if it's going to happen. Will your loved ones be hurt in an automobile crash? Will they die? It may be a morbid thought, but death and injury from car crashes is something that weighs in the back of everyone's mind every time they slip behind the wheel.
For 27-year-old Leticia Alvarado, A Corpus Christi mother of three, the worst of both worlds happened when she was driving her kids home from a shopping trip. They never made it home. What would have, and should have been an ordinary day in the life of a young mother and her three kids, was anything but.
The day ended with Avarado and her son in hospital, in critical condition. Her two lovely daughters, meanwhile, were never coming home again.
The car accident happened in mid-morning. It had been raining, and the roads were wet. Alvarado was just heading home in the family SUV with her three kids in tow, when she lost control on the wet pavement and skidded into oncoming traffic.
Critics of highway construction will say that every highway should have a concrete median separating the two directions of traffic. Every roadway, in fact. If there were, Alvarado's two daughters might be alive today.
Instead, the SUV skidded over the centerline unprotected by a barrier of any kind, and careened right into the path of an 18-wheeler semi.Leticia Alvarado was thrown clear from the SUV, as were her two daughters—13-year-old Alisha Alvarado, and 3-year-old Skyler Mendoza. Both girls were killed instantly. Leticia was critically injured. Her son Roman, aged 2, was the only person who remained strapped into the SUV after it crashed. The tot was rushed to hospital with a broken leg and neck injury.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, not surprisingly, was fine.
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Friday, December 19, 2008
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