Tragedy at Christmas: nurse died after being hit by a drunk driver in Bucaramanga

Yaneth Quintero, a 33-year-old nurse, died in the last hours because of a driver, apparently drunk, who ran over her and her husband on their way home to celebrate Christmas Eve as a family.

In the early hours of the morning, the nurse left work and was heading home on a motorcycle, driven by her husband. However, they were hit by a vehicle at the height of Calle 45 with Carrera 27 in the capital of Santander.

At home, their 8- and 15-year-old children were waiting for them to celebrate Christmas. The preliminary information from the authorities established that in the vehicle, A black Spark car, was a group of young people who, apparently, were fleeing the authorities and were in a state of excitement.

“Some irresponsible people killed my niece and left two children orphans. She damaged our lives because she was a very hard-working woman, ”Ludwin Cinuco, the nurse’s uncle, told Noticias Caracol.

While the 33-year-old woman lost her life immediately, her partner suffered a serious blow that has him between life and death at the La Merced clinic. The 28-year-old driver of the car, according to the news, was captured and is being questioned by authorities.

“That citizen who is mobilizing in a private vehicle ignored the part of the surveillance patrol. Likewise, it is highlighted that violated traffic signals, including a traffic light “General Luis García, commander of the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police, told the same newscast and added that several cans of beer were found inside the vehicle.

According to the Santander media Vanguardia, one of the witnesses to the event stated that the vehicle, which was going at high speed, the motorcycle collided in the back and it was caught in the front of the car, which dragged it almost half a block.

The victim’s family member demanded justice and told Noticias Caracol “this cannot be left like this, how are they going to end the life of a young and working woman?”. Quintero died at the scene from the multiple blows, when the paramedics arrived at the scene the nurse no longer had vital signs, so they transferred her husband to the La Merced Clinic, who despite the seriousness of his injuries, is still in condition reserved health.

The Santander portal What happens in Bucaramanga detailed that, after the impact of the motorcycle by the vehicle, which was going at full speed, passing the traffic lights of Carrera 27 with 45th Street in red, Yaneth flew off the motorcycle and fell several feet away, a blow that would have killed him instantly.

While her husband was clinging to the motorcycle, which was dragged by the vehicle and ended up in serious health. The couple’s children, both minors, suffer the death of their mother on December 25, while they wait for their father to survive the severity of his injuries.

The same regional portal assured that in the black Spark there were two men and a woman who were being pursued by the authorities in the back streets, for driving at high speed and in a state of numbness, violating the curfew and that Inside the cart were beer cans and a bottle of whiskey.

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