‘I just heard the phone drop’: Daughter of cyclist struck, killed recounts final moments on the phone with her mother
Danielle Gonzalez heard the fatal impact while she was on the phone with her mother
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SAN ANTONIO – An avid cyclist for more than a decade, 44-year-old Beatrice Gonzalez was on the sidewalk in front of Central Catholic High School the night of April 7, waiting for the other cyclists to catch up. She was then struck by a vehicle that San Antonio Police said was being driven at a high rate of speed when it jumped the curb.
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Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. For weeks, the long-term care facility where Linda Green works as a nurse looked to her like a battlefield hospital, swathed in plastic drapes separating the ill from the uninfected. The coronavirus ripped through the western Maryland facility like wildfire at the end of 2020, deepening Green s fear that she, at 73, might bring the virus home to her husband, who is 84.