FREEWAY CRASH VICTIM MOURNED GRANDFATHER WASN'T ABLE TO SAY GOODBYE.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer Twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. ago, electrician Adrian Gomez came to the United States with big dreams and worked hard to provide a good life for his wife, son and daughter. On Tuesday, the beefy beefy, beefyness 1. in dog conformation, used to describe overdevelopment of musculature in the hindquarters. 2. in cattle, used to designate the desirable physical conformation of a beef animal, but an undesirable character in dairy cattle. 48-year-old noted for his sandpaper sandpaper, abrasive originally made by gluing grains of sand to heavy paper sheets. Today sandpaper is made primarily with quartz, aluminum oxide, or silicon carbide grains, and is graded according to the size of the grains. hands and steel-toed boots was killed. A car driven by a woman suspected of drunk driving slammed into his pickup truck on the Foothill Freeway in Lake View Terrace. ``I know he's in heaven. I know he went with his shoes,'' said Adrian Gomez Jr., the crash victim's 19-year-old son. ``I know he's in a good place. We're praying for him. But he is praying for us, because he's too good.'' Family members mourned the loss of Gomez, a dedicated Catholic working man who fixed machines at a downtown slaughterhouse slaughterhouse: see abattoir; meatpacking. during the week and attended Mary Immaculate Church in Pacoima on Sunday. He doted dote intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. [Middle English doten. on his 9-month old grandson. His 16-year-old daughter, Maria Isabel Gomez, remembered her father as her best friend. ``He was like a counselor,'' she said. ``He taught me everything about life. He would always tell me about anything. He was always there for me.'' The fatal crash occurred Tuesday before dawn as Gomez headed for work. As he did every day, he left home an hour early because he always arrived at work on time, his son said. Just after 4 a.m., on the 210 near the interchange with the Ronald Reagan Freeway, his truck was struck from behind by a motorist in a Nissan Altima. The impact sent his truck careening The careening of a sailing vessel is laying her up on a calm beach at high tide in order to expose one side or another of the ship's hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. down a freeway embankment and into a tree. He was pronounced dead at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills. The driver of the Altima, Tiffany Alcala, 22, of Lake Balboa was arrested and she has since pleaded not guilty to four charges including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. , driving under the influence, DUI causing great bodily injury and the charge that her blood alcohol level was .08 or higher. She was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail at the Twin Towers Jail downtown. She is set for a bail review hearing Monday and her preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 1. ``She has no record whatsoever,'' said her Sherman Oaks attorney James Goldstein. ``She's a very nice kid. This would be completely out of character for her. She is not a drinker. Her family is devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . Everybody involved feels horrible.'' Adrian Jr. said that no matter how much the suspect is punished, nothing will bring his father back. He is expected to hear today from the Coroner's Office about when his father's body will be released so they can begin making funeral arrangements. ``What she did - nothing could be fixed,'' he said. ``Nothing in the world could fix this. She took a friend, a friend of friends. She took a father. She took a son. She took everything. ``There were so many things I wanted to talk to him about,'' he said. ``I know he wanted to say goodbye to us. He didn't get a chance to say goodbye.'' Jason Kandel, (818) 713-3664 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com |
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