“Natalia was a girl”: An unexpected and dramatic moment shocks the firefighter when he goes to the scene of a traffic accident and finds his own sister dead

“We, as firefighters, go to emergencies, accidents, fires, rescues, driven by the principles of the institution to provide a service. We don’t think one will find a relative let alone a brother.

Jeins Chate, a firefighter from the municipality of Yumbo, located in the department of Valle del Cauca, in Colombialived in his own flesh the pain of finding a dead sister.

The young woman was killed when the motorcycle she was riding crashed along with two other people. The unfortunate events took place on the Cali-Yumbo highway, near the Ciudad Guabinas sector.

The victims were riding a motorcycle and crashed into a dump truck.

Every four hours, a person dies in road accidents on Ecuador’s roads

Firefighter is surprised by his sister’s death

What might be considered a practical routine led firefighter Chate to encounter such a dramatic reality. Others might think he made the painful discovery out of intuition.

The man lifted the white sheet that covered one of the bodies, and the pain pierced his heart: the deceased before his eyes was his sister. It was Natalia, his girl, as he described her to Noticias Caracol.

He said when he went to the scene, “I can’t imagine a girl like Natalia dying in an accident. She was a very noble person,” the still-shocked firefighter added.

Regret the death of Natalia

Natalia Melissa Chate Trujillo was 25 years old and studied industrial engineering at Agustiniana University.

The university community expressed its regret on social networks for the death of the young woman. Our thoughts, prayers and well wishes are with his family and friends, expressed from the university setting.

Accidents in Colombia

After the traffic accident, Natalia’s companions were taken to a clinic, where they reported the death of one of them hours later.

Traffic accidents are cause for concern in the neighboring country. Until November 2022, authorities reported more than 7,000 traffic accidents.

Infobae reported, citing the statistical bulletin of the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine, reduced to last November, that there were 7,432 deaths in road accidents in 2022.

Compared to 2021, 853 more people lost their lives for this reason in the year ended, an increase of 12.9%.

Reckless driving and mechanical failures of the units were analyzed as triggers for these events.