KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | Sunnyside girl almost crushed by car shares her story
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SUNNYSIDE, Wash.- Yasmin Frausto sits with her new beanie baby. It's an angel, a fitting symbol for the ordeal she just survived.
If you watch the surveillance video at the Valley View Market, you can see Yasmin walking behind her parents, then seconds later a red vehicle slams into the side of the building right in Yasmin's path.
"The car went back and I almost got hit," said Yasmin.
As the car backed up it hit a cement filled pole, which launched it into the air, then the car came to a rest on another pole.
Detective Jim Ortiz with the Sunnyside Police Department translated for Yasmin's father. He said the family was split by the vehicle.
"And she didn't know if the car hit them and they didn't know if the car hit her cause they were on both sides of the car," said Acension Frausto, as translated by Ortiz.
Yasmin said she saw the car backing up so she jumped out of the way. Her father thinks someone was watching over them Sunday night, it's a miracle no one was hurt.
"Something incredible that even he as an adult he still can't believe it," said Det. Ortiz.
The driver of the vehicle was cited for reckless driving and driving with a suspended license.
Yasmin is having a hard time with the accident, but said she's excited to go back to school tomorrow.
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