{"id":34403,"date":"2011-05-09T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=34403"},"modified":"2011-05-10T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T03:35:07","slug":"i-dont-know-why-this-happened-mother-of-accident-victim-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/accidents-tragedy\/i-dont-know-why-this-happened-mother-of-accident-victim-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why this happened&#8221; &#8211; Mother of accident victim speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34411\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34411\" title=\"Keyanna\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Keyanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Keyanna.jpg 251w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Keyanna-131x113.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keyana Emmanuel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gweneth Roberts of Marigot said when she left her village for the city on Saturday morning with her kids; she would never imagine that it would be the last time seeing her 12-year-old daughter Keyana Emmanuel.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts and her son were among 10 other individuals involved in a tragic accident on the Pond Casse road on that rainy and fateful Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe left home that morning to go to town to take some photos to send to Guadeloupe for their father (Laurent Emmanuel). Just before we left she told her brother she didn\u2019t want to go to town because her clothes had gotten wet but we still went,\u201d Robert recalled.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roberts the bus driver wasn\u2019t really speeding &#8220;but he wasn\u2019t driving slow either&#8221; and according to her, \u201ca certain time I just felt the bus on one side then it flipped over twice and then I don\u2019t remember much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explained further that, \u201cEverything went dark for a bit and then when I opened my eyes I saw my daughter lying on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said she had lost all hopes when she saw how badly injured her daughter was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer head was split. Her brain was even coming off it. I even held some in my hands and she was bleeding all over,\u201d she sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>She said young Keyana Emmanuel was quiet and fun to be around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why this happened. All I can do is cry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gweneth Roberts of Marigot said when she left her village for the city on Saturday morning with her kids; she would never imagine that it would be the last time seeing her 12-year-old daughter Keyana Emmanuel. 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