A surveillance video captured the moment a Florida a woman confronted a driver who stole her daughter’s parking lot, seconds before he hit the gas and hit her with his car, dragging her through the parking lot to her death.
Olga Fernandez, 57, was hit by a car around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in front of her apartment near 1st Avenue and 4th Street in Hialeah, Florida.
Fernandez, a mother of two, ran to her 24-year-old daughter’s aid after she returned to find someone in her designated parking space.
Surveillance footage from the parking lot shows her standing in front of a dark Toyota Corolla, waving her arms and shouting at the driver before he drove the car into it and drove off.
Fernandez was rushed to hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Police hope the video will help them find the driver and look for a dark-colored Toyota Corolla with a dent in the front.
Surveillance footage captures a woman from Florida colliding with a driver furious on the road who stole her daughter’s parking space in her apartment near 1st Avenue and 4th Street in Hialeah
Police are looking for a dark-colored Toyota Corolla with a dent in the front after the driver hit Fernandez and drove off early Sunday.
Olga Fernandez died on Sunday (February 13th) after being hit by a car in front of her home in Hialea after a dispute over a parking space
Fernandez’s best friend, Ileana Aho, explained to local news what happened early this morning.
She explained that Fernandez’s daughter had just returned home when she noticed that someone was in the parking lot.
“Her daughter said, ‘Mom, there’s someone in the parking lot,’ and her mother went downstairs and she went to the bathroom. “When he came out of the bathroom, he heard his mother screaming,” Ajo said.
Earlier this week, another set of surveillance footage was taken by paramedics trying unsuccessfully to rescue Fernandez after she was hit by a car.
Footage from WESH – pixelated to keep Fernandez confidential – shows her being treated on the tarmac before being lifted onto a stretcher and placed in an ambulance.
Police hope the new surveillance footage will help them find the driver they believe is a man driving a black or dark Toyota Corolla (pictured).
This video shows paramedics working frantically to save the life of a mother from Florida who has just been hit by a car and dragged after an argument over a parking space.
It was still dark on Sunday when the video shot half a dozen lifeguards working on Fernandez in front of her apartment near First Avenue and Fourth Street in Hialeah, Florida
Unfortunately, these urgent efforts were unsuccessful and she succumbed to her injuries shortly afterwards.
Family and friends are shocked by Fernandez’s tragic death.
A neighbor, identified only as Janet, told Local NBC 10 that she heard the commotion that day, but was afraid to look.
She remembers Fernandez as a wonderful person and attributes it to her saving her daughter’s life.
“My daughter had stopped breathing and it was getting dark,” Janet said. “My mother went out to run, but she doesn’t know how to drive. Olga saw my mother, dialed 911 and gave her a CPR.
Ajo said that the children of her best friend, Diana, 24, and Freddy, 18, have a broken heart.
“The girl says she can’t close her eyes because she sees her mother on the floor bleeding from her mouth, saying, ‘I can’t breathe,'” she said.
“I feel like half of me has been taken away,” Ajo continued. “Yesterday I realized that I will become a grandmother again and I am far from happy. I was sad because I wanted to call her and tell her, but she wasn’t there.
A GoFundMe was created to help the family with funeral expenses.
Fernandez was described as a hardworking, caring woman who lived for her children
GoFundMe was created to help the family with funeral expenses