Three lives were tragically cut short early Sunday in Miami when two 17-year-old girls and the man who tried to help them were killed in an auto accident.
The girls, Carolina Agreda and Anapaula Saldana, were traveling in a red Toyota when a 68-year-old woman driving an SUV collided with them.
Passing motorist Eduardo Hernández stopped to help the girls when yet another vehicle crashed into the stopped cars, killing Agreda, Saldana, and Hernández.
Carolina Agreda and Anapaula Saldana were returning from a party when their car collided with an SUV while traveling through an intersection
Eduardo Hernandez got out of his car to check on the girls, only to be struck and killed along with them when a second vehicle sped into the scene
The Miami Herald reports Hernández was headed home with his father and son, 8, after the trio watched a boxing match at a relative’s house.
Who’s at fault?
While police have yet to determine whether drugs or alcohol played any roll in the fatal accident, eyewitnesses at that scene reported that the two teen girls almost immediately insisted they had not been drinking.
However, in an interview after the crash, driver Rolando Jiménez described their behavior as erratic.
Jiménez said the girls appeared to have ignored a flashing red light at the intersection while the SUV had a yellow signal.
Read more: Daily Mail
