“It was beautiful.”
“He had many friends.”
“She was a very cheerful young woman.”
The way Aline Palla Acosta died last Wednesday while skating on a path reserved for skaters in Pompano Beach was such a heinous thing that the accident report made by Broward County Police (BSO) does not fully express the true horror of the situation. The brief report does not capture who the 27-year-old woman represented for many of her friends, as well as for her husband, or her mother and father in Brazil.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, “Endail Thomas was driving westbound in his 2007 silver-colored Nissan Murano near the 600 block of Northeast 10th Street in Pompano Beach,” wrote Gerdy St. Louis, a spokesman for the BSO.
“Thomas lost control of the car and ran over Aline F. Palla Acosta, a passerby skating on the path on the north side of the road. The vehicle then crashed into a tree and broke in two. Rescuers declared Acosta dead at the scene. ”
The emotional damage left by Acosta’s death is enormous. “Aline was a very cheerful young woman. Anyone who knew her well could say how kind and beautiful she was inside and out. A woman full of life, entertaining and passionate with an even brighter future than her contagious smile. It’s gone, but it won’t be forgotten, since many people will miss Aline Palla Acosta, ”wrote her friend Daniela Del Ciampo on one page GoFundMe page He organized on Friday.
VIGIL WITH CANDLES
That same night, friends and family gathered at the crash site for a candlelight vigil to remind the woman who was hit by the Nissan with such force that rescuers who arrived at the site could not immediately determine Acosta’s age , according to the Sun Sentinel.
After hitting Acosta Thomas crashed into a tree that split the Nissan in half. The violent force drove the two occupants out of the car. Nissan pieces threw Acosta against a pole, WSVN reported.
“Aline’s mother was at the moment talking to her, and heard a great noise, and then she could no longer listen to her daughter,” Del Ciampo told WSVN.
“He was the best person in the world. The sweetest. If one needed something, there she was, ”Acosta’s friend Brooke Szabo told CBS4, a Miami Herald news associate at the vigil.
“It was like a daughter to me,” Luiza Faical told CBS4. Faical owns Jungle Smoothie Café, located on Commercial Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale where Acosta had been working for eight years.
“More than an employee, it was family, our daughter who worked with us and was part of our family at Jungle Smoothie Cafe since I was 19,” Faical said in a post that hung on the Jungle Smoothie Café website on Facebook.
Acosta had recently been promoted to help manage another coffee franchise in Sunrise.
“Although I met you for a short time, you had a big impact on me. I was eager to continue working on Smoothie Jungle with you. Your smile illuminated the whole place, ”wrote Geraldo Abreu in the post he posted on Facebook.
GOFUNDME PAGE
The GoFundMe page set a goal of $ 15,000 to help Acosta’s family with cremation expenses and send their ashes to their parents in Brazil. The rest of the funds will be donated to charities on behalf of Acosta, Del Ciampo wrote on the page.
As of Saturday morning, 237 donors had pledged to give $ 13,605.
Abreu donated $ 1,000.
Acosta leaves behind her husband with whom she had been married for three years, reported WPLG Local 10. The man was too distressed to speak with the press.
DRIVER AND PASSENGER
Thomas, 25, a resident of Lauderhill Lakes, and his passenger at the Nissan, Melissa Gregoire, 37, of Lauderdale, are in Broward Health North Hospital in serious condition, the BSO said. It is believed that both will survive, CBS4 reported Friday.
Thomas has countless traffic fines dating back to August 2016, when he was fined for not stopping at a red light, according to Broward County court records.
On February 11, eight days before the accident where Acosta lost his life, Thomas was fined by the BSO for driving 58 miles per hour (mph) in a 35 mph zone while driving a 2007 Nissan. Charges are still pending. .
Other charges include driving without insurance in March 2019, driving with a suspended license, and not registering a vehicle in August 2018.
A witness to what happened, Brad Michael, told WFOR CBS4 that he saw a black SUV chasing the Nissan just before the Nissan collided and broke in two.
“It is not a simple accident, what happened is much more than an accident,” Michael told the station, while saying he estimated the speed of the SUV at more than 100 mph in an area of 35 mph.
The BSO is investigating everything.
Thomas’s girlfriend, Rosie Granvill, told WPLG that Acosta’s family is very sorry.
“I am very sorry that the other person has died,” Granvill said.
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