And from the bus operators' meeting place in Belmopan to Spanish Lookout, this past weekend, a family lost their matriarch in a tragic accident.
It was just after 4:00 on Saturday when 39-year-old Maria Norma Cedillo was riding her motorcycle with her young son. Somehow, the driver of an SUV misjudged a curve and collided into her. Residents rushed to their aid, but Cedillo passed away on the spot.
Today Courtney Menzies visited her grieving family who explained that the entire incident is just too incredible to put into words. Here's that story.
It was Saturday evening when an accident in Spanish Lookout left four children without their mother. 38-year-old Maria Norma Cedillo was travelling from "town" to her home in the Green Hills area when she and her 8-year-old son were knocked off her motorcycle on the Aguacate Lagoon Road.
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Officer
"The female was driving the motorbike at the time when the driver of Toyota 4Runner, Mr Jesson Perez, looked like he miscalculated a turn on a curve and slammed into this female, Maria Cedillo, motorbike, causing her fatal injuries. the minor was transported to the Western Regional Hospital, where he's listed in a critical condition. I know that Mr Perez was immediately detained. I cannot say whether he has been charged as yet but I know that police officers already issued him with Notice of Intended Prosecution and the necessary blood and urine samples were requested. Whether he complied or not will be sent to us today."
But while the police continue with their investigation, Cedillo's family is trying to cope with the death of the woman with the greenest thumb, who was always there for them. Cedillo's husband said that when he first heard the news of an accident, he would have never thought it was her.
Luis Gutierrez, Husband of Deceased
"(Spanish) When they told me it's a woman and a child, I couldn't believe it until I went on the scene and saw my wife on the ground."
"I can't explain it, because it is something that I can't believe happened so fast, when someone takes away something that has been with me for so long, there is no way to think, a big part of my soul, of my heart."
"She was the type of woman that I can't explain. She was a good woman, a good wife. She loved farming, planting tomatoes, fruits, vegetables, so this time she found the kind of beans the Mennonites plant and she went to take the beans to Spanish Lookout but when she come [back home], the accident happened. I was thinking of my son because when I reached, my son was not by his mom, so I was thinking about him."
By that time, his son had been rushed to the hospital. He was discharged this morning with only a few scratches. And according to a resident who responded to the scene, his only injury seemed to be in his shoulder, while his mother died on the spot.
Voice of: First Responder
"To me it looked like the injuries were primarily head injuries, the lady was already lying on her side so I didn't move her body. The little boy was lying on his stomach so I moved him to his left side."
"I rolled him to his left side, he started to regain some consciousness and he was crying a lot, he wanted to lie on his back so I turned to his right side but it appeared that his right shoulder had an injury so I turned him back to his left side and I just kept holding his head and eventually I put my life pack under his head so he didn't need to lay on the stones. Basically I was rubbing his chest and holding his shoulder and his head."
"The lady had not breathed a single time, the man who was the offender, he was kneeling on the road, crying, "I killed the lady, I killed the lady," and he was begging me to tell him she was okay and I told him I felt like there was a faint heartbeat still but she didn't breathed once and I was pretty sure she was dead."
"It was approximately within five minutes that I covered the lady because to me it looked like she was dead and I didn't want her body to be exposed to the public so I just covered her with a thermal blanket."
Perez, the driver of the SUV, has been served with an NIP and has been asked for blood and urine samples.
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