http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/health\/article\/abby-guerra-reported-dead-in-crash-discovered-to-be-alive-in-hospital\/19567634?ncid=webmail<\/a><\/p>\r\nHumans are fallible and make mistakes, but one would hope that this kind of situation wouldn’t happen. But it has happened before. I have encountered such a mix-up in my own practice, so I know it does occur. occur.<\/p>\r\n
In this instance, the relatives and friends of\u00a0Abby Guerra, 19, a soccery star from Glendale, Ariz., were told by authorities that she had died in the SUV\u00a0accident July 18.\u00a0But in fact Guerra was lying in a hospital alive.\u00a0Officials had mistakenly\u00a0identified\u00a0the deceased victim, who was\u00a0actually\u00a0Marlena Cantu, 21.<\/p>\r\n
Abby did sustain serious head injuries, but she’s alive.\u00a0So now\u00a0her\u00a0family can end their mourning and\u00a0stop making funeral plans, and hope she recovers.\u00a0But the Cantu family, which has been keeping watch over\u00a0Abby at the hospital, believing she was\u00a0their daughter Marlena, are now the ones that will have to mourn and\u00a0make arrangements.<\/p>\r\n
Guerra, who has a soccer scholarship to\u00a0the University of Evansville in Indiana, and Cantu were returning from a trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.,\u00a0when the SUV’s left-rear tire blew out.\u00a0There were three other passengers in the vehicle with them.<\/p>\r\n
Tyler Parker, 20, died the next day at a Phoenix hospital. The two other passengers, including misidentified Guerra, were also taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, undergoing\u00a0treatment for serious head wounds.\u00a0She is\u00a0in critical condition after\u00a0sustaining brain injury, a broken back and a collapsed lung. Her face was so banged up, she was virtually unrecognizable. She had black eyes and her face was\u00a0swollen.\u00a0She had undegone brain surgery, so her head was shaved.<\/p>\r\n
Unfortunately, her future as a soccer player appears dim at this point, but at least she is alive.<\/p>\r\n
The misidentification was made\u00a0because officials announced that\u00a0Guerra was dead\u00a0before the medical examiner’s office\u00a0had a chance to compare\u00a0medical records for a positive ID. That record check didn’t\u00a0take place until a week after the accident.<\/p>\r\n
St. Joseph’s said that its doctor shortage and huge volume of patients is what\u00a0delayed the medical record comparison.<\/p>\r\n
I’m sure that’s little solace to the Guerra and Cantu families.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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A young Arizona woman, a passenger in an SUV,\u00a0was killed when the vehicle’s\u00a0tire\u00a0blew out and it flipped over. But the accident\u00a0caused even more heartache than it had to when authorities screwed up and misidentified the woman’s\u00a0body, telling \u00a0the family of a teen-aged girl who actually survived the crash\u00a0that she had\u00a0died at the scene. http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/health\/article\/abby-guerra-reported-dead-in-crash-discovered-to-be-alive-in-hospital\/19567634?ncid=webmail Humans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,155,4,5,151,154],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-body-mixups","tag-misidentifications","tag-tire-accident","tag-tire-accident-attorney","tag-tire-accident-lawyer","tag-wrong-identification-on-bodies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}