Kayla Fernandez was critically injured after the car she was driving in flipped over at the hands of Carmen Huertas, her friend's mother, who was allegedly driving drunk.
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Newspaper Says Drunk Driving Suspect Ignored Pleas From Daughter
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Oct. 13) -- Authorities said a mother who was the driver in a fatal crash in New York was drunk as she sped home after a Saturday night party with her daughter and six other girls in the car.
One of the surviving girls told her mother that Carmen Huertas, 31, ignored her own daughter's pleas to slow down before the car flipped over, killing 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, reported New York Daily News.
Leandra's best friend, Kayla Fernandez, 11, survived the crash after being thrown from the car. She is still hospitalized. Huertas' daughter, Brittany, 11, and the other four girls in the car were injured but expected to recover.
Kayla's mother, Melody Sanchez, said her daughter told her that Huertas told the girls, "'You think this is fast? Just wait until we get on the highway.'"
"I'm just shocked at what she did," Sanchez told the Daily News. "This is my daughter's life!"
Huertas had a blood-alcohol level of 0.132, the paper reported. The legal limit is 0.08. She was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.
"It's not a mistake, it's not an accident; it's negligence," Lenny Rosado, Leandra's father, told the Daily News. "Are you a child or are you an adult?"
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2009-10-13 09:41:15
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