A fatal car crash in Allapattah began, Miami police said Tuesday, as a fight between two women over a child, with one woman grabbing the child and jumping into the speeding vehicle that might have caused the collision.
The night began with a 15-month-old girl, who was living with her father and his girlfriend, neither of whom police identified.
The mother of the child, Mylife Rivera-Vasquez, 20, of Homestead, persuaded the girlfriend on Monday to meet her at Northwest 17th Avenue and 28th Street so she could see her daughter, Miami police said.
As the girlfriend waited in that area with the girl about 8 p.m., Rivera-Vasquez and several other people arrived, police said, and punched the girlfriend several times.
During the melee, Rivera-Vasquez grabbed her daughter and got into a Lincoln Town Car that drove away.
The Town Car sped south on Northwest 21st Avenue, police said, and the girlfriend appeared to have followed in another car.
But as it approached Northwest 20th Street, the Town Car crashed into a Chevrolet Tahoe.
The Tahoe had been westbound on Northwest 20th Street. Police said the Town Car failed to yield the right of way.
Two of the three people in the Town Car — the driver and the 15-month-old — were thrown from the vehicle, police said. All three were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
The driver, Kristofer Daniel Astorga, 22, died shortly after arriving at the hospital, police said.
Rivera-Vasquez and her child, Juliet Rivera, were both in critical condition, police said.
Lt. Ignatius Carroll, spokesman for Miami Fire-Rescue, told Miami Herald news partner WFOR CBS 4 that the little girl hadn’t been secured in a child car seat.
The Tahoe’s driver was in good condition at Jackson, and a passenger in that car was treated at the scene for minor injuries. Neither was identified Tuesday.
On Tuesday, police said Rivera-Vasquez had been charged with two counts of simple battery.
El Nuevo Herald Staff Writer Melissa Sanchez contributed to this report.
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