Family Begs For Answers After Driver Kills Street Vendors In North Highlands: ‘Why My Sisters?’

NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Raw emotion and unfiltered choler poured retired arsenic household members begged for answers aft a operator fatally struck 2 thoroughfare vendors successful North Highlands.

”Oh this hurts. Why my sisters? I don’t know,” said Ricky Berry.

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Berry stood and prayed astatine the country wherever his sisters were deed and killed Friday afternoon. Investigators accidental an 18-year-old operator was trying to bushed the yellowish airy astatine the country of Watt Avenue and Don Julio Boulevard erstwhile she mislaid power of her car.

The conveyance went consecutive done the intersection and plowed close done a thoroughfare vendor tent.

Family members aren’t holding backmost arsenic they telephone for change.

”This is implicit and over. This isn’t conscionable today. This is simply a regular thing, an mundane happening down here,” said Kristine Kaestner.

The victims—Sheila Berry, 60, and Ethel Riley, 56—were sisters. Witnesses accidental they apt ne'er saw it coming arsenic they ne'er heard the operator deed the brakes.

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”We privation velocity bumps, it has to be. This is crazy,” said Kaestner.

Theresa Long was a regular customer. In tears, she went to the acquainted thoroughfare country toting immoderate of her favourite purchases.

”This is the archetypal Raiders garment that I ever bought from them erstwhile I archetypal moved here,” said Long. “The symptom that I’m feeling close present I’m going to consciousness for the remainder of my life.”

Crews were near cleaning up the wreckage of a hard acquisition learned arsenic household and friends telephone for alteration truthful it ne'er happens again.

”They’re going to person to retrieve their parents dying nether a car due to the fact that you didn’t privation to beryllium astatine a light?” said Long.

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”I can’t judge this happened, I can’t judge this. It’s hard,” said Berry.

Marlee Ginter