The life of Dolors Fontarnau and his family changed forever on February 19, 2022. On that day, his daughter Cristina Mora lost her life in a traffic accident on the C-62, in the municipality of Olost (Osona ), when he was returning from visiting his grandparents in Prats de Lluçanès. A drunk and speeding driver took the life of this 28-year-old, future teacher, like her mother. She combined her studies with one of her passions, artistic gymnastics, which she had practiced since she was a child. She was sports director of the Olot Gymnastics Sports Association, a club where she was much loved by the gymnasts she trained, their families and the other coaches. Cristina made herself loved. A school canteen monitor, she participated whenever she could in extracurricular activities and summer camps and was closely linked to the Unió Excursionista de Vic. He was a very active person with his whole life ahead of him.
Her mother remembers that fateful day started in the best possible way for her. One of her best friends was getting married and she witnessed a civil ceremony held in Sant Sadurní d'Osormort. She presented the newlyweds with a cake that she prepared herself. "A wedding without a cake is not a wedding...", he remembers saying to her. After the wedding and the obligatory toast, he went home for lunch, in the center of La Guixa (Vic), and in the afternoon he decided to visit his grandparents at their residence, not even 30 km away, half an hour on trip She was accompanied by her partner, Gil, who was injured in an accident that Cristina could not prevent.
The offending car, a van driven by a young man who was 23 years old at the time, was thrown at him without him having room to maneuver to avoid it. The driver, who was slightly injured, had a blood alcohol level of 0.80 milligrams per liter of exhaled air, three times the legal limit. At the time of the collision, he was traveling at around 140 km/h, in a section with a speed limit of 80 km/h. The police report makes it clear that the victim did not make any incorrect maneuvers, that he did not exceed the permitted speed limit, nor did he have enough time and space to make an evasive maneuver. The young woman died on the spot. His partner, who was co-pilot, was injured and was taken to Vic hospital, where the offender was also admitted.
Cristina's death was only the beginning of a nightmare that two years later has not ended. Today there is still no date for the holding of the trial, a fact that shows the slowness of justice and that prevents the victims, in this case of traffic accidents, and their families from trying to turn a page after 'such a tragedy, if that is possible. "Everything is being very slow and long and more unfair for the victim than for the perpetrator", laments Cristina's mother, who during these two long years has had to face situations that have only aggravated an impossible wound to delete
Dolors Fontarnau cannot understand how the driver who killed his daughter the day after the accident could already drive. He was not arrested and his license was not taken away. Nor why he couldn't see or hug his daughter once she was dead. "Absurd and cruel protocols of the administration did not allow us", he says. He also had to take heart when the environment of the young man who will go to trial "dedicated to spreading rumours" to blame his daughter for the accident and his own death "until later the testimony of the Mossos silenced them." Preliminary investigations are ongoing for the alleged crime of reckless homicide and serious injury, reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The victim's mother also complains that the Department of the Interior took more than a year to calculate the speeds of the two cars, a fact that extended the court deadlines. It wasn't because of laziness, but because of a lack of means. In Central Catalonia there is only one expert who does speed studies.
A tortuous path full of thorns that is now waiting for the judge to issue the opening statement for the oral trial. Too much time and, for now, very little comfort.
