GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A couple who lost their unborn son after police say a driver hit them at 94 mph. They say they forgive him and have moved to start over.
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Symeon and Samantha Izaguirre were turning into a shopping plaza on Satellite Boulevard near Duluth on June 20 when a Mercedes hit their Mini Cooper, according to arrest warrants.
Samantha Izaguirre was 24 weeks pregnant. The warrants say the impact ruptured her uterus and the baby died.
She also broke her femur, ankle and pelvis, and her husband broke a bone in his lower back.
“He was going so fast, my brain couldn’t compute it,” Symeon Izaguirre said.
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The couple had been married less than a year and were preparing for October.
“Having a child together really meant a lot,” Samantha Izaguirre said. “It would just be the best of both of us.”
They named their son Zion and held him at the hospital.
“We got to meet him in the hospital,” Symeon Izaguirre said. “He was pretty healthy looking.”
Gwinnett County police charged Dorin Lupas, 33, of Duluth, on Aug. 27 with first-degree feticide by vehicle, two counts of serious injury by vehicle, racing on highways or streets, reckless driving, speeding and failure to maintain lane.
The warrants say a witness heard Lupas’ engine revving as he took off from a green light, and the car’s airbag module showed the gas pedal fully pressed for three seconds.
“94 [miles per hour] is just, that’s crazy to find out in the last couple of weeks,” Symeon Izaguirre said. “That explains us going in and out of consciousness and the impact that it had.”
Samantha Izaguirre uses a wheelchair, and the couple said doctors expect her to walk again about a year after the crash.
“Wherever he picks me up and puts me down, that’s kind of where I stay,” she said.
Her husband quit his job to care for her, and the couple said the sounds near Satellite Boulevard became unbearable.
“Every night. Ambulance, police, the speeding, you just hear it,” Samantha Izaguirre said. “It was very loud and it affected us more after the accident.”
They broke their lease and moved to a quieter county.
“We do forgive the person for what he did because we know that can control us,” Symeon Izaguirre said. “So we choose to move on and we know people make mistakes.”
Bond on the seven warrants totals $41,000.
Symeon Izaguirre drives his brother’s old truck with no air conditioning to get Samantha to her doctor’s appointments.
The family has set up a GoFundMe to help cover her recovery.
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