Four years after the death of Martín Elías, this is how his wife Dayana Jaimes and his daughter Paula Helena remember him

Four years ago, the singer of Vallenato, Martín Elías, died in a car accident. The Barranquillero was moving after giving a concert in Coveñas on April 14, 2017, but the vehicle in which the artist was traveling lost control and ended up overturning, causing serious injuries and death.

His wife, Dayana Jaimes, and their daughter, Paula Helena, around that two-year-old, had to accept that the being they loved most had disappeared from that plane. In an interview with the show La Red, Jaimes recounted how he experienced the process of raising his baby girl in the absence of Martín Elías.

“Sometimes you break down thinking you’re going to grow up without that father figure. Sometimes it gives me a bit of trouble, but I always try to fill her with love, a lot of affection and remind her all the time of that wonderful father she had “the businesswoman told about the gossip program.

Likewise, he mentioned that every day he tries to show Paula Helena pictures of his father, because with the passage of time and almost six years old, he doesn’t remember much of him.

“Paula was a dream we both had. When we found Paula, I don’t know, I thought it was going to be a boy, but from the start he said it was going to be a girl. I remember when they told us she was a girl her happiness started to cry with emotion. I show her the pictures so that she always keeps them in her heartAdded Dayana Jaimes.

But little Paula Helena also appeared on La Red and ensured that she knows her dad loves her very much. Jaimes also said she knew her father had died in a traffic accident and recalled an anecdote: “One day he asked me why God took his father and not someone else. There is one like… going in to explain to a five year old girl is a bit difficult, you have to try to do it with soft words, with affection, so that she understands and does not have any resentment in her heart “.

“The best gift he can give me is Paula and we will always be proud of him, he will always be an example for Paula to follow,” Jaimes concluded.

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The investigation into the death of Martín Elías advances

From the year of his death until 2021, he went from a traffic accident to criminal proceedings for wrongful death, in which the one appointed by the Attorney General’s office is the driver Armando Quintero.

On the other hand, according to a laboratory report dated April 25, 2017, to which the newspaper El Tiempo had access, four days after the event, the investigating entity requested scientific technical support from the discipline of accident reconstruction. transit.

After carrying out the necessary processes to reach a conclusion, 12 points were determined, among which: the exact sector of the accident has a maximum operating speed of 50 km / h and there are 34 kilometers of imperfection on the road, between Tolú Viejo and the point of the fact.

This investigation was decisive since it was concluded that the fact of, in addition to the two contributing factors, corresponding to the poor condition of the road infrastructure and the possible distraction of the driver, were the causes of the accident. In addition, In this same report, the Toyota company was asked to scan the computer where the state of mechanical failures was checked., devices and speed when the airbags are activated.

Two years ago, in April 2019, the formal criminal proceedings against Armando Quintero began at the hearing to formulate the accusation. But it was until the end of that same year that the aforementioned wording was fulfilled, since in April as in June requests for postponement were presented, including one for an alleged conciliation of global compensation between the accused and the victims.

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