STOCKTON – A Colombian woman has been in a coma for more than a week now after a multi-car crash in Stockton. Now, her family is trying to come and see their 20-year-old daughter as she fights for her life.
Maria Fernanda has been at San Joaquin General Hospital for over a week.
Friends and fellow Colombians are now trying to get her family here with more treatment and healing still needed.
“It’s really hard,” said Fernanda’s older sister, Lina Roa.
She is in Bogota, Colombia, and says Fernanda moved to Stockton to try to find a better life.
“She’s the youngest of our family, she’s just a girl, she’s only 20 years old,” said Roa. “In a country so big like the us, all alone.”
Fernanda was driving home northbound on Interstate 5 near Eight Mile Road when the CHP said her car broke down.
She pulled over to try and fix it, walked to the front of the car and that’s when another car hit her.
Three cars in total were involved and Fernanda was critically hurt.