A woman from Florence in Kentucky, United States, has been killed in a crash while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. The crash occurred on Saturday night, 31 March 2018 in La Romana. Carol Ann Murphy, aged 45 and 19-year old Haitian Phelyne Kitter, died when their vehicle lost control, broke bridge barriers and fell over the edge into the river in Cumayasa, as reported in Listin Diario.
Kitter was rushed to the public hospital Doctor Francisco A. Gonzalvo in La Romana by a fire brigade rescue vehicle. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Murphy was taken to Doctor Antonio Musa regional hospital in San Pedro de Macorís.
The family of the deceased American woman is upset as pictures of their mother’s body are circulating on Facebook, presumably originating from someone in the Dominican Republic.
The family said their mother was on her way to the beach when she died. She was a diabetic, and they are unsure if that could have played a role in her death.
Family members started a GoFundMe account to raise money to bring her body back to the United States for burial. After funeral expenses are met, the remainder of the GoFundMe money will be donated to the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, in Murphy’s honor.
Read more in Spanish:
Listin Diario
Fox 19
4 April 2018
