Giselle Flores Obituary, Death – The 19-year-old woman who tragically lost her life in a moped crash on the Cross Island Expressway was described by her grieving twin sister as someone who embraced every moment of life. Giselle Flores, one of two teenagers killed in the accident, had planned to get a ride home early Saturday morning to spend the weekend with her twin sister, Sharick Flores. Unfortunately, Giselle never made it home.
Giselle was pronounced dead on the Queens highway after the 15-year-old boy she was riding with lost control of the moped they were on. In the hours before the fatal crash, Giselle had been out with a friend of the twins. She had called her sister to check in.
“I asked her, ‘What are you still doing out?’ and she told me, ‘Don’t worry, I’m getting some friends to pick me up. I’ll go home and I’ll see you at 5 in the morning,’” Sharick recalled. But Giselle never returned home.
When some friends on motorcycles arrived to give her a ride, Giselle told Sharick’s best friend, “Get on. Let’s go for a ride. We only live once.” Giselle and the friend jumped onto separate mopeds. Giselle rode with Andy Martinez, a teen she had met that night.
Around 2 a.m., as they were riding on the highway, Martinez lost control of the moped. The vehicle collided with a car and the impact sent both riders crashing into a highway wall near 150th Street. According to Sharick, this information was relayed to her by the friend who had been riding with them.
The boy riding with Sharick’s friend stopped to drop her off on the side of the road before rushing to help Andy Martinez get to the hospital. Unfortunately, Martinez was pronounced dead upon arrival. Meanwhile, Sharick’s friend called her in a state of panic while Giselle lay motionless.
“She said, ‘She’s not moving, she’s not breathing. She’s bleeding. I don’t know what to do.’ I told her, ‘Call 911,’ but they had already called,” Sharick remembered. She then rushed to the emergency room, only to be told that her sister had passed away.
Sharick described the heartbreaking moment of seeing her best friend covered in her sister’s blood. “Her legs, her shoes were soaked. She said, ‘I tried to wake her up, but she wouldn’t wake up,’” Sharick said.
The twins’ mother is deeply devastated by the loss, and the family is now seeking financial support for funeral expenses. Sharick described Giselle as more than just her best friend. The two had shared dreams of going to college together after Giselle completed high school in November. They both aspired to work in medicine—Giselle as a nurse and Sharick as an ultrasound technician.
“She was my whole world. My sister and I have been through so much together,” Sharick shared. “We think the same way. We wanted to study medicine. She was going to be a nurse, and I was going to be an ultrasound tech.”
Despite their plans, Sharick acknowledged that Giselle always had a sense of urgency about life. “She always knew something like this could happen. She believed we only live once,” Sharick said.
Sharick, who lives upstate, had planned to drive to Queens to pick up Giselle for a weekend together. Giselle had excitedly planned out their time, suggesting, “We’re going to go jet skiing, we’re going to go shopping, we’re going to do everything.”
Sharick had told her to relax, but Giselle insisted, saying, “No, we’re doing all of this because what if I die tomorrow?” She lived with the mentality that they had to make the most of each day.
The investigation into the tragic crash is ongoing, and no arrests have been made at this time.