Orange Walk Baby Crushed in Traffic Accident

Lindsey Babb

Three-year-old Lindsey Babb lost her life this morning during a horrifying traffic mishap in Orange Walk Town.  The toddler was being transported on a motorcycle driven by her father, thirty-three-year-old Eulalio Babb, when he was overtaken by a Bowen & Bowen delivery truck in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue.  The sudden impact upon being passed, flung Babb and his daughter off the motorcycle, the child falling beneath the rear wheel of the moving vehicle.  Baby Lindsey’s skull was crushed and she perished at the site of the accident.  The driver of the Coca-Cola truck, identified as twenty-four-year-old Irvin Leal, reportedly kept driving, but was eventually stopped by residents who witnessed the incident.  This afternoon, we spoke by phone with the grieving father.  Eulalio Babb explained in great detail the accident as it transpired.

On the Phone: Eulalio Babb, Father of Deceased Toddler

“I got up this morning, changed my daughter’s clothes, gave her food and everything.  My daughter said she loved me and told me that she wanted juice.  I told her that I would buy it for her.  I was going to Liberty Avenue and then the Coca-Cola truck just overtook me to a curve, knocked me down and the same time my daughter fly and the wheel went right over my daughter’s head and ih mash my daughter head right in front of me and everything and di man neva wahn stop.  He done mi di look fu go but di people stopped him and thing and the man come down and thing.  He noh talk to me or nothing and he actually laughed when he see my daughter on the ground.  The brains were out and I don’t know what else to say.  It’s difficulty and it hurts me a lot.  She is my smaller one and I had already bought her uniform to go to school and she was going to school very soon.  Everything totally planned and now this has happened.  It’s a shock to me right now.”

Isani Cayetano

“I could understand sir.  How is the rest of the family holding up?”

On the Phone: Eulalio Babb

“We are very saddened right now and tomorrow we’ll have the post mortem, tomorrow morning.  By tomorrow evening we are supposed to get the body.  We’ll have a wake over here by my house or my sister’s restaurant.”

Isani Cayetano

“So you mentioned to me that the other residents in the area had to stop the driver of the vehicle.  What happened when police came on the scene and what have you?”

On the Phone: Eulalio Babb

“Only one police was on the scene, one police.  He assisted me and stopped the boy who was driving the truck and asked him for his driver’s license.  Ih look like di gentleman noh know how fi talk English or what, I don’t know.  But the police reached da di scene and start to help me and thing, asked me questions for full details of what happened.”

Isani Cayetano

“Describe your young daughter to me Mr. Babb.  I know that she was preparing to go to preschool.  Talk to me a bit about Lindsey.”

On the Phone: Eulalio Babb

“My daughter was three-years-old.  Smart.  Friendly with everybody.  She was a happy little baby, loving and everything.  My lee daughter was loving, she get up early da morning, kiss me, kisses mom, kiss her little sister and little brother and everybody.  She was very, very happy and thing.  And now what will happen?  We will miss her.”

Bowen and Bowen Limited has issued a release offering its condolences to the family of the little girl.  Orange Walk police continue their investigation.