Get ya Kleenex ready…
She didn’t even have time to say goodbye.
A young mother involved in a minor fender-bender on an icy stretch of an elevated Bronx highway yesterday stepped out of the vehicle, phoned her mom and had just managed to say she was “fine’’ when another car knocked her and her brother over a concrete barrier, killing her and critically injuring her sibling in the 75-foot plunge.
“Jennifer called me and she said that she was in an accident,” said grief-stricken Angela Escoto, 45, of her daughter, Jennifer Sosa, 21.
“The last thing she said to me was, ‘I’m OK, Mom. I was in an accident, but I’m all right, its not that serious. I’m fine.’ ”
Escoto goes on to say:
“[She said] … she would call me later. And that was it, then the call dropped,” Escoto wept.
“I was so worried. I kept calling and texting her. I left messages. I got no response at all.
“I became frantic. I told my husband that something had to be wrong.
“I wanted to ask her what happened. I never got the chance. It’s too soon. She’s gone too soon,” the woman sobbed.
The emotionally distraught mother, struggled to understand the tragedy that has struck her family.
Jennifer’s brother, promising young boxer Pedro Luis Soto, 19, was left in a coma.
“Why did this happen?’’ the mom wailed.
“I can’t believe this. I want to know how this happened and who caused it,” said Escoto, who spent much of the day praying for her son in the chapel of Jacobi Hospital with her shattered husband and two other daughters.
Our condolences to the Escoto family.
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