Adorable girl, seven, killed in drag racing horror accident: 'She fought for her life'

A seven-year-old miss from Florida has died aft succumbing to superior injuries from a resistance racing accident.

Elienisse Zoe Diaz Rodriguez fought to enactment live for the 2 days aft the Sunday mishap astatine the Orlando Speed World contention track, but doctors confirmed her encephalon decease astatine 10:54pm, according to a GoFundMe for the family.

The precise details of the mishap stay unclear, but Elienisse had conscionable celebrated her seventh birthday connected January 30, conscionable days earlier the tragedy.

Officials with the Orange County Fire Rescue said they responded to 911 calls reporting an incidental betwixt a car and a idiosyncratic astatine astir 11:20am connected Sunday astatine the contention track, FOX 35 reported.

There were reportedly 3 patients transported to antithetic hospitals arsenic a effect of the incident. 

One was a pediatric diligent taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital, different was taken connected precocious beingness enactment to Orlando Regional Medical Center, and a 3rd was transported to AdventHealth East Orlando with non-life-threatening injuries. 

Elienisse was racing that time to further her dreams of becoming a inferior dragster, according to the GoFundMe.

Her mother, Sharryl Rodriguez, has made a flurry of Facebook posts to memorialize Elienisse. She besides livestreamed a gathering of her friends and household praying for her daughter.

The National Hot Rod Association, the governing assemblage of each resistance racing events successful the US, says drivers who are six to 7 years aged tin lone implicit the modular eighth-mile people successful 13.9 seconds oregon slower.

Based connected that, 32 miles per hr is the apical velocity a driver Elienisse’s property would beryllium allowed to go.

It was confirmed that Elienisse was a first-grade pupil at Eastland Christian School. The schoolhouse released the pursuing statement.

'It is with heavy sadness and dense hearts that we stock the quality that our beloved first-grade student, Elienisse Diaz, passed distant past nighttime astatine 10:54pm,' schoolhouse officials said. 

'She was a agleam airy successful our schoolhouse community, and we are thankful for the clip we had with her. Her beauteous grin volition beryllium profoundly missed by each of us.'

School officials besides asked radical articulation the household successful supplication and 'surround them with emotion and comfortableness arsenic they navigate done this unimaginable loss.'

The schoolhouse besides said grief counseling services would beryllium made disposable to anyone who needed it.

Orlando Speed World, the tract of the tragedy, besides released a connection soon aft the girl's death.

'Our thoughts and prayers are with Elienisse’s household and each those affected, including our racing community. Motor sports (are) built connected passion, but moments similar these punctual america of the risks that travel with what we love,' representatives from the contention way said successful a statement.

'While injuries tin heal, the symptom of nonaccomplishment is immeasurable. We basal unneurotic successful support, mourning and supplication during this hard time. We widen our deepest condolences to those grieving and volition proceed to uplift them successful our thoughts.'

Numerous media outlets and bloggers who routinely screen resistance racing shared their heartbreak over Elienisse’s death.

As of precocious Thursday afternoon, the GoFundMe for Elienisse’s household has raised much than $22,000 toward its $30,000 goal.

'All funds collected volition beryllium utilized straight to screen ceremonial costs and observe her life. In these hard times, each kinds of contributions volition beryllium welcomed,' explained the GoFundMe description. 

'We created this GoFundMe to commemorate the beingness of our beauteous princess.'

The ceremonial work for Elienisse volition beryllium held connected Monday and Tuesday adjacent week.