MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) - A family is searching for answers after two cars came racing down a South Florida street resulting in the death of a mother.
The family is in pain after their loved one, Margaret Chance, was killed in a horrific wreck in Miramar, Jan. 28.
“I don’t wish this on nobody else,” said Annette Chance, the victim’s sister. “No other family.”
According to police, the two cars were drag racing. One hit the victim’s car, and the other made a U-turn and fled the scene.
“That’s my sister,” said Annette. “From the day I was born, I was right beside her.”
Chance was a sister, a mother and a grandmother. Her family described her as a passionate woman that they will miss very much.
“I don’t know how I’m gonna survive without her,” said Annette. “Even though I’m an adult myself, she’s a part of me, and a part of me is gone.”
Chance was driving home from work at around 7 p.m. She was turning left on West 21st Street from State Road 7.
“As she made that left turn, she was unaware that two vehicles were speeding towards her — drag racing,” said Miramar Police Department Traffic Homicide officer José Rosales.
A Cadillac CTS hit Chance’s passenger side and crushed her white SUV.
“The impact was so explosive that local business employees and some witnesses said that it was like an explosion went off,” said Rosales. “They’re telling me that their walls shook.”
Chance was rushed to the hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
Police are now searching for the driver of the second car that fled the scene. Video footage showed the fleeing vehicle as a dark colored sedan.
Two witnesses that were seen on camera told 7News what they saw.
“He hit that car full speed,” said Louie Inman.
Inman and Symone Patterson were walking along State Road 7 when, they said, they heard two cars accelerating south on 441.
“So I’m like, ‘OK, they racing,'” said Inman, “so actually when I saw the white SUV pull out, my girl, she screamed. She said, ‘Oh, my God, they finna wreck.'”
“Never thought I’d see something like that,” said Patterson.
Inman and Patterson ran to help after witnessing the crash, but it was too late.
“That’s when we stopped, and we was like, ‘Oh, my God.'”
“I can only just imagine how it would feel to lose your mother, your grandmother,” said Patterson.
“I know it sounds odd to say this, but I really wish I’d been there with her,” said Keefa Lovelace, the victim’s granddaughter.
“I know they need closure, and that’s what matters,” said Inman.
The couple said they want to offer whatever help they can to the family.
“They took away a grandmother,” said Lovelace. “Not just to them, but to anyone — be safe on the road. It’s not worth it. It’s not worth the rush. It’s not worth the thrill you get from drag racing. Someone’s life was taken.”
“Someone just took her life, took her away from us,” said Annette. “It’s not easy. The pain just can’t go away. I wish someone could tell us what to do to feel better.”
According to the witnesses, when they spoke to the driver of the Cadillac, his response was, “Why did she cut me off?”
A memorial has been placed where the crash happened.
No arrests have been made, although charges are pending for the driver who remained on scene.
If you have any information on this crash, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.
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