Nearly two years after a little boy was severely injured and his mother was killed in a car crash in Miramar, the boy’s father died after crashing an ATV in South Florida earlier this week. On Dec. 19, 2022, Cristina Hernandez, 30, picked up her then-7-year-old son, Jacob Estrada, from school in Miramar just before a teenaged driver violently crashed into the back of their car.
The teenaged driver was speeding over 100 mph just before the crash, a probable cause affidavit said. Hernandez was killed. Jacob was in a coma for weeks at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital after the crash, Anthony Estrada, Hernandez’s fiance and Jacob’s father, said at a news conference in Miramar early last year .
On Wednesday, Estrada, 38, was visiting family in Hialeah and rode a relative’s ATV around the 5000 block of West Fifth Avenue about 8:30 p.m., said Officer Scarlett Hernandez, a spokesperson for Hialeah Police.
He lost control while making a left turn and crashed into a home along West Fifth Avenue and was severely injured. He was flown by helicopter to Ryder Trauma Center, where he died. “He was truly a beautiful light in this world that was dimmed far too soon,” his family wrote in a GoFundMe online fundraiser Friday evening.
“There are stories in life that seem so unfair, and this is one you will remember.” Teen and his father arrested in Miramar crash that killed expectant mother, severely injured 7-year-old boy Estrada’s family said in the post on GoFundMe that Est.