Guadalupe Rivera – landscaping supervisor, family man, helper – suffered a needless, ghastly death because, police said, a speeding car collided with an SUV before striking Rivera on a Chesapeake sidewalk, where the 60-year-old Suffolk man was working.
Police said the male driver of the sedanat the center of the mayhem May 29 was racing so fast that he also dislodged the engine of the SUV he struck first and damaged a nearby utility pole. The speed limit along that stretch is just 35 mph.
“This is the most devastating news we’ve ever heard,” Andrea Magallan, one of Rivera’s eight children, told me by email. A news report saidhe had 33 grandchildren and great-grandchildren…