A California woman facing criminal charges after she found guilty in a car crash that killed a 10-year-old girl.
The girl’s organs helped more than 80 people.
On Friday, six months after the death of Francine Salazar, the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office charged Sara Spagnolini with felony vehicular manslaughter, local station ABC30 reports.
The woman was also charged for driving on a suspended or revoked license, a misdemeanor, and two traffic infractions for driving at an unsafe speed and failing to stop at a red signal.
The criminal charges begin from the horrific crash on Aug. 7 that killed an innocent girl.
On the day of the accident, Francine’s mother, Hanah Salazar, had just picked up Francine and her siblings from their after-school program, ABC7 reports.
She planned to give them a surprise by giving an ice cream so she took a different route than usual.
As they crossed through a rural intersection, a driver from out of town blew through a stop sign and slammed into the family’s van driving 60 to 80 miles an hour.
All children in the minivan, ages 3, 5, 6, 10 and 12, were wearing their seat belts or using “safety equipment,” CHP officers said, the Visalia Times-Delta reports.
Hanah noticed her 10-year-old daughter Francine, who was seated in the very back of the van was silent. She was left brain dead from her injuries.
“I can see my daughter’s head flapping, and it’s not stable, so I know there’s some injury. So they pulled her out and started CPR,” Salazar said.
She died on Aug. 10. Despite the family’s unbearable pain, Francine’s family made the difficult decision to donate her organs.
The donation would go on to save six people and help 75 others, the Donor Network West told ABC7.
“My daughter is a caring, loving, selfless person, and she would help everybody before herself,” Hanah Salazar told ABC 7.
A Gofundme page had been set up to help the family. The page described Francine as “full of life, with dreams and aspirations.
“Francine was and will be continued to be loved by her family and friends,” the page said. “Remembering her spunky little self just makes our heartache. There are no words to describe our sadness for losing Francine at such a young age.”
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