| Family Says She Was Waiting on The Roadside |
| Mon, September 24, 2018 |
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| Our colleagues from CTV 3 News also spoke with Salazar's uncle, Juan Rodriguez. He said that from what the family's been able to establish, she was not crossing the road, but standing at the side of the highway, waiting to travel to Orange Walk town. She was going to meet up with her aunt to enjoy their regular Independence Eve outing together. They say that's when the truck hit her:
Juan Rodriguez, Uncle of Deceased
"Everyone was getting ready to go to the September celebrations. It was 20th night - to see the fireworks. It's something that my wife and my niece normally goes out together and waited for the juuvey in Orange Walk that was in the morning at 4am. At that time my wife was getting ready to go and meet her. They were actually texting that they were going to meet - that the bus was coming and that she was going to take the bus and my wife was texting her back that they will at the town council. We got a call saying that she had died. I didn't believe it. But we got another call to confirm."
"My nephew, her husband and her brother-in-law, they were together waiting for the bus, because there was a bus running until 12 midnight bringing people from Calmelita Village back and forth. They were awaiting for the bus. They saw the lights, so they thought that it was the bus, so she went across the road on the other side where there is a bus stop. She went and she flag down the bus. To her surprise it was a truck and the truck hit her and it sped off and just left her there on the road."
"We all loved her very much and she will be missed. She has 2 boys."
Salazar died shortly after from the injuries she suffered. As you heard, she leaves behind 2 young sons.
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