A Vancouver woman is trying to locate a good Samaritan who comforted her and her family after a crash Wednesday.
Giselle Murillo-Brakeville, 47, of Vancouver was riding in a vehicle with her mother leaving the Firstenburg Community Center at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Her mother was driving and turned left to go north onto Northeast 136th Street when they were struck by a southbound vehicle that Murillo-Brakeville said came out of nowhere.
No one was seriously injured, but the family was rattled.
“We smelled smoke and my mom said, ‘My God, my car’s on fire,’ ” Murillo-Brakeville said. “The door would only open about 2 inches. … I kicked, I pushed, I managed to open it enough to get out.”
She got to her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat, and Murillo-Brakeville’s mother got out on her own. No one was cited for the crash.
About 10 to 15 people were in the area, but they all stood and watched, Murillo-Brakeville said.
“We just moved from Massachusetts, where people would have run to the car and asked if we were OK. I don’t understand this community,” she said. “I was shaking very badly, I was crying. I almost sat in the middle of the road … then a young woman walked up to me and said let’s get you up, let’s get you out of here.”
The woman was in her 20s and had just been in the nearby Cascade Park Community Library. Murillo-Brakeville said that her name was either Kenra or Kendra and that she stayed and sat with the family for about an hour.
Murillo-Brakeville is asking that the woman get in touch with her via email at snoopy8u@yahoo.com.
“We’d like to reach out to her, thank her,” Murillo-Brakeville said. “She was the only person that helped us. She calmed me down through the incident, she held my daughter … she was lovely.”
