Obdulia Sanchez aimed the camera phone at her face as she rapped along to the song blaring over the radio and tried to control the car she was driving on a road in California’s Central Valley.
Then came tragedy, live-streamed in a horrifying Instagram video.
The California Highway Patrol told Fox affiliate KTXL that 18-year-old Sanchez lost control of her 2003 Buick, drove off the edge of the road and then over-corrected. The car crashed into a barbed-wire fence and flipped over in a field, according to ABC affiliate KFSN.
Sanchez’s 14-year-old sister, Jacqueline, and another teen girl — who were in the back seat and were not wearing seat belts — were ejected from the tumbling car.
Moments later, Obdulia Sanchez was on Instagram Live again, explaining what happened — and growing increasingly hysterical.
“Hey, everybody, if I go to f—— jail for life, you already know why,” she began, adjusting the camera so that it showed her younger sister, motionless and bleeding from the head.
“My sister is f—— dying. Look, I f—— love my sister to death. I don’t give a f—. Man, we about to die. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us, but it just did. Jacqueline, please wake up.”
Another girl screamed in the background.
[Private school teens held an Instagram debate on the n-word. It went as well as you’d expect.]
“I don’t f—— care though,” Sanchez continued. “I’m a hold it down. I love you, rest in peace, sweetie. If you don’t survive, baby, I am so f—— sorry. I did not mean to kill you, sweetie. Sweetie, I am f—— sorry. Sweetie, please, wake up!”
Jacqueline was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
The Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told ABC affiliate KFSN that Jacqueline “was in the back seat of the vehicle and allegedly unseatbelted, and upon the vehicle rolling over, it ejected her and killed her.”
Obdulia Sanchez. (Merced County Sheriff)
The other girl, whom authorities have not identified, had major trauma to her right leg but is expected to survive.
Obdulia Sanchez complained of pain in her chest and right knee after the crash.
Obdulia’s father Nicandro Sanchez told ABC affiliate KFSN that he and his wife Gloria had seen the live stream video, and called it an “accident.”
“What I think is she knows she’s done something wrong. Because she knows, and that’s what I feel. She feels bad for herself, but she killed her own sister.”
Jacqueline was supposed to celebrate her quinceañera on Sunday, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help cover the dead teen’s funeral expenses.
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California Highway Patrol Sgt. Darin Heredia told BuzzFeed News that officials were “well aware” of the video. They are trying to determine whether it’s legitimate and, if so, whether Sanchez’s phone use contributed to the crash.
The video is the latest example of how people have used live-streaming tools in ways technology companies such as Facebook, which owns Instagram, have struggled to contain.
As The Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg reported in April, “live video of violent incidents, including suicides, beheadings and torture, have gone viral, with some reaching millions of people.”
In May, Facebook said it would hire thousands of people to review content to cut down on violent and sensitive video, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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