A former Providence woman was killed Monday and the father of her 6-month-old son died Tuesday after a suspected underage drunken driver rear-ended their Toyota near Disney World in Orlando, television stations there are reporting.
Giselle Batista, 24, was in the passenger seat of a Corolla that was stopped for a red light on World Center Drive just after 12:30 a.m., according to WOFL Fox 35 Orlando.
Neither she nor Benjamin Frias, 30, was belted in when a Charger struck their car.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper said that Alejandro Correa, 20, did not know he'd been involved in a crash. "He thought he'd actually been pulled over by troopers on a traffic stop," Sgt. Kim Montez said.
Correa had minor injuries and was charged with DUI manslaughter.
A family member said the baby would have been in the car if Batista's mother hadn't insisted on giving the new parents a night off to see a movie.