Photo: GoFundMe
An Alpine, Calif. woman was killed in a car crash on her way to a dance competition with her daughters Friday,according to multiple outlets.
Bonnie Baum Roth’s SUV veered into the Interstate 8 median, rolled down an embankment and landed on the highway’s eastbound lane at 8:38 a.m. Friday, reportedABC 10 San Diego.
Roth, 35, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle the outlet added. She died before she could be taken to hospital, the California Highway Patrol told theSan Diego Union-Tribune.
Baum told ABC 10 that she and her family are now searching for two people who quickly reacted to the scene of the crash and pulled the two children out of the wrecked SUV. The unnamed good Samaritans also covered up Roth’s body while comforting her children, about 10 minutes before emergency personnel first arrived on the scene, Baum added.
“I heard it was very difficult to get them out, the babies were screaming… Anything could have happened to them,” Baum told ABC 10.
Baum called the small group of people who reacted first to the crash “our heroes” and said she and her family “are pleading with them to come forward.”
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“The little girls have asked where their friends are that helped the out of the car,” Baum told ABC 10. “We just want to thank you. You’re part of our family now. We can’t thank you enough for being so brave.”
The county medical examiner’s report said Roth’s Chevrolet Tahoe veered to the right side of the highway “for unknown reasons,” reported theUnion-TribuneThis caused her to overcorrect and then veer left off the westbound side of Interstate 8, the newspaper added.The car eventually landed upright in the highway’s eastbound lane, reported theUnion-Tribune.
Neither alcohol nor drugs appeared to be involved in the crash, according to ABC 10 and theUnion-Tribune, which cited the California Highway Patrol. The CHP did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Wednesday.
“Be Like Bonnie,” Baum added at the end of the GoFundMe page’s description.
The fundraising page, which was created on Tuesday, had raised $52,633 as of Wednesday morning after setting an initial goal of $1,000.
source: people.com
