Pregnant Woman Dies In NYC Accident,But Her Baby Is Delivered

by Nikhil Sundaram    August 17, 2008

This is a news story that salutes the power of human beings and how it can try and help others in distress.Though it resulted in the end of one life it also saved another one.

The incident involved Donnette Sanz,who was seven months pregnant,and was crossing one of the busiest intersections in the Bronx on her lunch break when she was struck by a van whose brakes failed.The impact of the accident sent the 33 year old flying into the path of a yellow school bus and pinned her underneath.

Dozens of starngers converged from all directions to lift the 5 ton bus off the body of the pregnant woman in an heroic effort.They then rushed her to hospital.Here the doctors delivered her boy by Caesarean section.The 1.5 Kg baby named Sean Michael,was in a
critical condition but is improving gradually.

Mourners and neighbourhood residents gathered outside the hospital to pray for Sanz and her child.The 72 year old van driver,Walter Walker,pleaded not guilty to criminally negligent homicide and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.He was being held on $100,000 bail,and his attorney didn't immediately return a phone call.

Police meanwhile told in a court that the van's brakes were in an utterly bad shape and the vehicle was unsafe to drive.

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