Miami mom who died under truck pushing baby across Biscayne Boulevard identified, cops say
A mother pushing her 8-month-old boy in a stroller near downtown Miami was killed Wednesday after she was pinned under a dump truck while crossing the road, police said.
Miami police identified Jaklin Sabag, 33, Wednesday night as the woman.
At around 12:40 p.m., the dump truck driver was heading down Biscayne Boulevard near Northeast 22nd Street, in the Edgewater area, when he stopped in heavy traffic, said Miami Police Officer Michael Vega, a department spokesman.
Sabag was crossing the street between cars and not using a nearby pedestrian crosswalk, Vega said. When the truck driver saw traffic move forward, he hit the gas and felt a bump.
He stepped out of the truck and saw her pinned under the vehicle — her leg stuck under the truck’s tires — while a good Samaritan was picking up the baby boy, Vega said.
The baby was not injured, but Sabag died on the street, Vega said. Authorities had to lift the truck to identify her.
Detectives are reviewing a nearby store’s security camera footage as the investigation continues.
“Based on what we have observed, there is no way the driver would have seen her from where he was sitting,” Vega said. “That’s why it is important to cross behind trucks, in the designated crosswalk.”
‘A wonderful woman’
Rabbi Shmuel Gopen, of Chabad at Midtown Miami, told the Miami Herald Sabag is a friend and known to the community.
“She was a wonderful woman,” he said. “She raised her children in faith.”
Sabag lived at Elysee Miami, an affluent condominium roughly a block away from where she died, according to property records.
This story was originally published February 14, 2024 at 2:48 PM.
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