California doctor, 32, is killed after car smashes into her scooter

A 32-year-old expert successful California has died aft she was fatally struck by a conveyance while riding an electric scooter.

Dr. Geohaira Sosa, a first-year psychiatry resident expert astatine UC Davis, mislaid her life astatine astir 10.30am connected August 29 aft she was deed by nan incoming conveyance successful Sacramento. 

The collision occurred astatine adjacent nan 1200 artifact of Alhambra Boulevard, astatine nan intersection of Folsom Boulevard. 

According to a GoFundMe launched by the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry, Sosa had started her residency 2 months agone aft moving from Queens, New York. 

'Geo was an perfectly beautiful personification wrong and out. Many of her co-interns who had nan privilege and joyousness of spending clip pinch Geo these past fewer months felt that she was becoming 1 of our ain champion friends.

'She radiated joy, kindness, and authenticity. We dream to transportation guardant her tone successful our communities,' nan crowdfunding page read. 

The Puerto Rican was nan first of her family to prosecute medicine and was highly proud of her roots. 

She had earned her bachelor’s grade successful biology and psychology astatine Queens College arsenic a first-generation assemblage student. 

According to nan The Sacramento Bee, Sosa had attained a master’s grade successful municipality bioethics and attended aesculapian schoolhouse astatine Lewis Katz School of Medicine astatine Temple University.  

She had besides worked connected a newsletter providing wellness acquisition to existent and erstwhile incarcerated people. 

Apart from this, Sosa acted arsenic a intelligence wellness ambassador for low-income assemblage students pinch intelligence illnesses. 

The crowdfunding page has raised $36,396 - importantly much than its original extremity of $30,000.