Milagros Ortiz’s three children are demanding the officer be held accountable for the crash that resulted in her death
NEED TO KNOW
- Milagros Ortiz died at Orlando Regional Medical Center on Jan. 19, a day after the SUV she was a passenger in was struck by an Orlando police vehicle
- The police vehicle “was at fault for the collision due to failure to yield right of way,” according to a preliminary crash report prepared by Orlando police
- The police department says it has launched an internal investigation of the crash and that a traffic homicide investigation is also underway
A 92-year-old woman on her way home from her weekly bingo night in Orlando was struck by a police cruiser that drove through a red light earlier this month.
The next day, Jan. 19, Milagros Ortiz died at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Now, her three children are demanding the officer who was behind the wheel, and listed as “at fault” in a preliminary crash report, be held accountable.
“He needs to know that because of his carelessness, recklessness, negligence, he took someone that still had maybe four or five years of life in her,” daughter Judy Santiago, 64, tells PEOPLE…