Lifted from Chuvaness (as per an email she received)
The mom who hit Amiel Alcantara was in an old Hiace van, waiting for her son to come out. She had a driver, and when the driver saw her son, he went down from the van and left it idling. The cars in front of the van moved already, a big gap was left in front of the van, so the cars behind the van began blowing their horns to make the van move. THe mom went down to move the van. That's when she accidentally stepped on the gas, instead of the brakes, rear-ending the car in front of her, which in turn, hit the car in front of it. The impact was strong, but that wasn't when Amiel was hit.
The mom, in her panic, then reversed very quickly. She didn't see Amiel and his yaya crossing behind her van, looking for their own car. That's when she hit the boy and the yaya. She didn't even realize that she had hit two people, she kept going in reverse, even if the other drivers and bystanders were screaming for her to stop.
They had to extricate poor Amiel from under the van. My friend's driver was one of the people who helped carry him. When my friend saw him, she knew at once that he was gone. She saw his things scattered on the ground, even the hotdog he was eating right before the accident.
From Fabulous Fortysomething:
The saddest part is that according to reports, Mrs. Torres, herself a mother of a fourth grader at the Ateneo, has not offered any apologies to the Alcantara family and claims that it was all an accident.
Let's pray for Amiel's soul and that this wll never happen again..
