Family speaks out about woman's death and her life
An elderly Edinburg woman is dead after she was hit by a car while crossing the street on Sunday night.
It all happened off Schunior Road and 18th Street around 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
Edinburg police told Action 4 News that a 2001 Dodge passenger car hit 69-year-old Maria De Los Angeles Garza while she was crossing the street.
Paramedics rushed Garza to a local hospital with serious injuries but she died a short while later.
According to police, the 20-year-old male driver was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He will not be cited.
Police told Action 4 News that the victim failed to yield the right of way to a vehicle and did not use a designated crosswalk to cross the street.
Garza's son Omar spoke to Action 4 News about the accident.
“We were coming back from Peter Piper with my little boy because it was his birthday,” Omar Garza said. “My dad and I crossed the street and then all of a sudden I saw my mom---get hit by a car.”
Despite this horrible tragedy, Omar said he is not angry with the 20-year-old driver who hit his mother but he said he cannot forgive him.
“He got down from the car and said he was sorry," Garza said. "The one that will be able to forgive him will be God."
Garza said his late mother received a life-saving kidney donation 21 years ago.
The family is paying the favor forward by donating all of Garza's organs.
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