US state of Maryland on Sunday (July 24).READ MORE: 23 homemade armoured 'narco tanks' seized from Mexican cartelAccording to police, she was driving the car on Broken Land Parkway in Columbia, Maryland, when, at about 2am, she veered off the road and smashed into a tree.
Her 36-year-old stepfather was a passenger and was reported to have been seriously injured in the crash.The young girl's mother, Gracia Rivas, recalled the moment that the police showed up to tell her what had happened."I was asleep.
I didn't feel my girl, and when I woke up, I was scared. I couldn't find my car keys. I didn't know where Josseline was," she told NBC Washington sister station, Telemundo 44.She added: "I don't know anything.
I don't even know where they were going... When I went to sleep, I went to sleep with her at my side... That's why I woke up because my daughter wasn't next to me."Molina-Rivas was pronounced dead at the scene and her stepfather was transported to a hospital.
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