Pregnant mother of 2 killed in Alabama wreck ‘had a big heart’

A 28-year-old woman who was seven months pregnant died in a car crash, according to Alabama authorities.

Laurina Hernandez, of Quincy, Illinois, was a passenger in a 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe when it struck a ditch and flipped over near Athens around 2 a.m. on Oct. 21, according to a statement from Trooper Justin O’Neal of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

Athens is about 95 miles north of Birmingham.

First responders took Hernandez to a hospital, where she died of her injuries, according to the statement. She was not wearing a seatbelt.

The driver, a 20-year-old man, was not injured, the statement says.

Hernandez was seven months pregnant.

Hernandez had two daughters and a husband, according to a GoFundMe page.

People on Facebook remembered Hernandez as a kind, loving person.

“I loved her she was a lovely lady,” a user called Kelsey Kellow Michael Kellow commented on a Facebook post from Hernandez’s aunt. “She had a big heart.”

“I worked with her and she was a nice sweet person,” wrote another user, Tiffany Ellis.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol division is investigating the crash, according to the statement.