{"id":3866,"date":"2025-10-15T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:49:08","slug":"south-florida-man-mourns-wife-of-40-years-killed-by-suv-at-crosswalk-we-were-inseparable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3866\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida man mourns wife of 40 years killed by SUV at crosswalk: &#8220;We were inseparable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Florida man is facing the unimaginable, going to sleep without his wife by his side after nearly four decades together and grappling with the moment a driver took her life while she attempted to cross a street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/hialeah-man-84-denies-threatening-teen-with-gun-ive-been-wrongly-accused\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hialeah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lifelong partnership ended suddenly<\/p>\n<p>Gregorio Delgado tells CBS News Miami he and his wife, 61-year-old Delia Annet Delgado, were soulmates. &#8220;My wife of many, many years. How do you think I feel?&#8221; he said, shedding tears.<\/p>\n<p>The couple met at a Miami dance club in the 1980s and were inseparable. &#8220;We did everything together. We were inseparable. She was everything,&#8221; Delgado said.<\/p>\n<p>The day it all changed<\/p>\n<p>Delgado said he went out Monday morning to clean a family member&#8217;s AC unit and asked Annet if she wanted to come along. She declined, saying she had to run an errand. That afternoon, he received the devastating call from police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart was pounding so heavy, it wanted to come out of my chest. I started shaking; I almost fainted,&#8221; Delgado recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance shows deadly moments<\/p>\n<p>Video shows Delia pressing what appears to be the crosswalk button at the intersection of East 4th Ave. and 49th Street. A black SUV pulls up to make a right turn. She begins crossing the street\u2014and is struck. The driver pauses briefly, then the SUV rolls over her again.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado described the scene: &#8220;He was apparently so hurry to turn\u2014my wife was going like this (waves arms) so he can see her, he didn&#8217;t bother to see her. He ran over my wife and his tire and everything went over her face and body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remembering a joyful life<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he wants his wife to be remembered, Delgado said, &#8220;A happy person, a dancing person, \u2014 that&#8217;s how I want it\u2026 That&#8217;s how we&#8217;re always going to remember her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Legal questions remain<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have called the incident an &#8220;unfortunate accident&#8221; and say the driver is not facing charges. <\/p>\n<p> Delgado said he wants the driver to be held responsible and will explore legal options after preparing for his wife&#8217;s funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida man is facing the unimaginable, going to sleep without his wife by his side after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1638,1064,4352,4353,807],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hialeah-police","tag-miami-dade","tag-pedestrian-killed","tag-pedestrian-struck","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}