After crash in Cuba, Florida college student can't return home - Miami Herald
The daughter of Cuban parents, Barbara Jimenez has dreams of attending law school after graduating from the University of South Florida. But earlier this month, she and her boyfriend, John Fox, were seriously injured in a car crash while visiting her family in Cuba. Days after the wreck, Fox, an engineer in Melbourne, was airlifted from Havana to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, his family said, where he is recovering from his injuries. Jimenez's parents, Daisy Falcon and Jorge Jimenez of Immokalee, traveled to Cuba last week to be with her. This isn't easy," Jorge said Saturday afternoon while sitting next to his daughter's hospital bed. Fox, 23, and Jimenez, 22, arrived in Havana Aug. 3 and had planned to spend a few days with her family in San Jose, a town about 40 minutes away from the island's capital. They hired a taxi cab, a 1952 Chevrolet, to take them to San Jose. About 30 minutes into their trip, a truck slammed into the car. The taxi driver died at the scene, while Jimenez, Fox, and her two relatives were taken to local hospitals with serious injuries, according to Cuban news outlets. Caridad Jimenez arrived the day after her sister's crash. Barbara was in a coma for about five days, her sister said. Source: www.miamiherald.com
