Hours af­ter cel­e­brat­ing her sis­ter’s birth­day, Chif­fon Daniel’s fam­i­ly’s smiles turned in­to tears af­ter a fa­tal road ac­ci­dent end­ed her life.

The ac­ci­dent al­so land­ed her close friend and that woman’s ten-year-old son in hos­pi­tal.

Daniel, 35, was a moth­er of four who lived at Bagatelle Road, Diego Mar­tin.

Po­lice said she died around 2.10 am yes­ter­day, af­ter the car she was in was struck by an on­com­ing ve­hi­cle Sier­ra Leone Road, Diego Mar­tin.

Daniel’s close friend, who lived streets away at Raphael Ter­race, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin, with her two chil­dren, had just col­lect­ed her spe­cial needs son from rel­a­tives and was on the way back when tragedy struck.

Po­lice said the woman’s car had been pro­ceed­ing through the in­ter­sec­tion when a White Nis­san Fron­tier dri­ven by a man from Diego Mar­tin is be­lieved to have bro­ken the traf­fic sig­nal and col­lid­ed with their white Nis­san B15.

Daniel died at the scene, while her friend and her son, along with the oth­er dri­ver, were all tak­en to the St James In­fir­mary where they were treat­ed.

The three were lat­er trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where they were said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said the child re­ceived a lac­er­a­tion to the head, while his moth­er sus­tained se­vere in­juries.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Daniel’s home yes­ter­day, tears flowed freely as her chil­dren, rel­a­tives, neigh­bours and friends mourned her death.

Dazed and shocked, a male rel­a­tive wiped tears as he said, “Most I can say is she is a hard-work­ing per­son.”

The moth­er of four girls, aged 18, 15 and twin girls aged four, was de­scribed as the main bread­win­ner for her fam­i­ly.

At a loss for words, a rel­a­tive lament­ed, “What I go say boy? Right now it hard ... know what I mean?”

Fight­ing not to break down as oth­er rel­a­tives hugged and com­fort­ed one an­oth­er, the rel­a­tive re­called how the cel­e­bra­tions turned sour.

He said Daniel and her friend had just dropped off the birth­day girl at their home, when the friend in­di­cat­ed she was go­ing to pick up her son who was stay­ing with rel­a­tives near­by.

Daniel, he said, opt­ed to ac­com­pa­ny the friend for what was sup­posed to be a quick trip.

Rel­a­tives said they were no­ti­fied by the au­thor­i­ties af­ter the ac­ci­dent oc­curred.

“The fam­i­ly in a state of shock. Every­body head hot.”

Daniel’s fam­i­ly said her death was a dou­ble blow, as they suf­fered an­oth­er death ear­li­er in the year.