PROVIDENCE - The family of a mother and baby who died after a three-car accident in East Greenwich in September said the state police's decision to charge the driver with traffic infractions is unjust punishment for taking two lives.
Sullynette Sanchez, 23, who worked at the University of Rhode Island's office of admissions, was killed after 24-year-old Benjamin Servideo of Newport rear-ended her RAV4 on Route 4, and causing her car to hit the vehicle hit the car in front of her.
Sanchez's was pregnant at the time with Daryel Noah Bustamante, and following the crash, the baby was delivered and placed on life support. He died two weeks later.
Servideo is scheduled to go before the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal Thursday to answer to civil charges of failure to maintain control, conditions requiring reduced speeds and following too closely.
Steven Bustamante, Sanchez's fiancé and the father of the baby, along with Sanchez's mother Ramonita Cortes, say the traffic charges were a shock to them.