18-year-old Obdulia Sanchez was allegedly intoxicated and live-streaming a Friday evening car ride to her over 7,000 followers when she reportedly lost control of the car and crashed.
According to BuzzFeed and numerous other media sources, Sanchez was driving in Los Banos, California with her 14-year-old sister Jacqueline Sanchez Estrada and a 14-year-old friend. Sanchez was singing along to the music and moving her phone around the capture the car ride when she began to drift off the road, over-corrected, crashed through a barbed-wire fence, and flipped the car into a field.
Neither 14-year-old was wearing a seatbelt and both were ejected from the car. Jacqueline died and the other passenger sustained major injuries to her leg but is expected to survive.
Immediately following the accident, a bloodied Sanchez continued to live-stream the accident, including showing followers her dying or dead sister, saying:
"I fucking love my sister to death. I don't give a fuck. We about to die. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us but it just did. Jacqueline, please wake up. This is the last thing I wanted to happen... I killed my sister, but I don't care. I killed my sister. I know I'm going to prison, but I don't care. I'm sorry, baby. I'ma hold it down.... rest in peace, sweetie."
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According to a GoFundMe page posted to raise money for funeral expenses, the girls were running errands for Estrada's upcoming quinceañera, scheduled for this past Sunday. ABC30 reports the teens were returning from a trip to Fresno.
"Friend of a friend" Mary Hernandez recorded the video from Sanchez's Instagram Stories before it could disappear.
"So many people kept saying 'What video? I wanna see it,'" explained Hernandez to BuzzFeed regarding why she posted the video to her social media accounts.
"At first I was skeptical, but the more people reached out to me, then her cousin confirmed it was her. It's just so insane to believe that happened to girls from my city. It is for sure an eye-opener. I see people on their phones on social media all the time. I think this video can get a lot of people to think twice about using their phones while driving now."
Hernandez went on to say, "No one wanted to believe it, it was so crazy how desensitized and careless she seemed about someone as close to her as her sister. Who in the right mind continues to record?"
Sanchez was arrested on felony charges of driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and has been booked into Merced County Jail. "They were very uncooperative after the arrest and [Sanchez] was screaming about her sister," California Highway Patrol Sergeant Darin Heredia told BuzzFeed.
According to the Daily Mail, authorities are investigating whether or not the video is authentic and if the filming contributed to the crash.
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