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Florida Car Accident Takes the Life of Cultural Leader

Maria Esther Carrillo was killed and her daughter was critically injured in a Florida car accident. The 39-year-old cultural school founder was in Miami with her 17-year-old daughter when the accident took place.

According to police, Maria and her daughter were returning to their car when a car and a pickup truck collided in the intersection, which caused the truck to spin onto the sidewalk where they were standing.  Maria died at the scene and her daughter was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

Nicolas Prieto, president of Hispanic Youth Voice of Tampa, a group founded by Maria’s daughter, said that “she had several broken ribs and broken bones in her face and one of her lungs collapsed, but she is conscious now in stable condition and her brain wasn’t harmed.”

The mother and daughter were supposed to be home at 3:00 AM, but when Maria’s husband, Francisco Carrillo hadn’t heard from them by 2:00 PM, he called the Miami police and was told about two unidentified women involved in an accident.

When he arrived in Miami, he found out that those two women were his wife and daughter.

It was reported that Maria pushed her daughter out of the way of the truck that was spinning out of control, which possibly caused her to take the full impact herself, while saving her daughter.

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