Survivor recounts ordeal after fatal crash in Ypacaraí

Yamila González, who miraculously survived a devastating car accident with her two young children, has been released from the hospital. The crash, which occurred on a Saturday night in Ypacaraí, Paraguay, claimed the lives of her partner, Virginio Sánchez, and his mother, María Concepción Dominguez.

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I told him: ‘Let's stay a while to see my uncle's truck to buy,’ and he said: ‘No, let's just go, because I want to bathe.’ And I said: ‘It's fine,’ ‘No, your aunt will scold us,’ he told me like that, I told him if we stayed here at our aunt's house. If we had stayed here, what happened to us wouldn't have happened. For me, it was already his day, God for me already called him and that's why he wanted to go home so much and that happened to us.

González recounted their journey home from Ciudad del Este, where they had gone to look at a house. Her partner, feeling tired, wanted to drive straight home, overriding her suggestion to stop and view a truck for sale. "I told him: 'Let's stay a while to see my uncle's truck to buy,' and he said: 'No, let's just go, because I want to bathe.' And I said: 'It's fine,' 'No, your aunt will scold us,' he told me like that, I told him if we stayed here at our aunt's house. If we had stayed here, what happened to us wouldn't have happened. For me, it was already his day, God for me already called him and that's why he wanted to go home so much and that happened to us," she recounted.

She described the moments leading up to the impact, recalling laughter and her intention to rest in the back seat with her children. "I just felt the impact," she said. She held onto her son tightly as the crash occurred, while her daughter sustained injuries to her face. González awoke later in the hospital, having undergone resuscitation, and suffered bruising to her chest, a pulmonary contusion, a broken rib, and a significant leg wound.

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I just felt the impact.

González believes her survival was a miracle, recounting a prayer she made to an image of the Divine Child Jesus before leaving. "I always pray. I, precisely when we stayed for dinner, I saw a picture of the Divine Child Jesus and I went and prayed to him, and I blew him a kiss, and I got in the car and then my stepson told me: 'What do you think he'll hear you?' 'Of course he hears him,' I told him, and I just laughed at him and so I prayed to him, and I blew him a kiss like that and I got in the car, and that's how it happened," she detailed.

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I always pray. I, precisely when we stayed for dinner, I saw a picture of the Divine Child Jesus and I went and prayed to him, and I blew him a kiss, and I got in the car and then my stepson told me: ‘What do you think he'll hear you?’ ‘Of course he hears him,’ I told him, and I just laughed at him and so I prayed to him, and I blew him a kiss like that and I got in the car, and that's how it happened.