Girl Run Over at Querencia Los Cabos, According to a Statement in the Investigation File

A 5-year-old girl was thrown from a golf cart at Querencia Los Cabos on March 25, 2025. What the records show about that morning and how authorities learned.

Vox Populi Staff

An empty palm-lined boulevard in a development near San José del Cabo in the morning

On March 25, 2025, at about 10:15 a.m., a 5-year-old girl was thrown from a golf cart on Boulevard Querencia, a road in the private Querencia Los Cabos development in San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, when a RAM 700 truck bearing Querencia markings rear-ended the cart. According to a statement in the prosecutors' investigation file, the girl was run over at Querencia Los Cabos: the truck's front right tire passed over her body, and her father pulled her out from under the truck. Official records place her admission to Hospital H+ Los Cabos at about 10:40 a.m. Authorities learned of the crash from the hospital.

The crash on Boulevard Querencia

The golf cart was carrying one adult and three children. Two sets of records describe the same kind of collision: a truck hitting the cart from behind. One is the driver's account. The driver, who is under investigation, said in an interview with a state investigator on March 26, 2025: "I got distracted for a few seconds looking down and could no longer avoid it" (translated from Spanish; in the original, "me distraje unos segundos volteando hacia abajo y ya no pude evadirlo").

The other set is the inspection records. According to them, the golf cart, examined at 6:23 p.m. on March 25, 2025, in the club's parking lot, showed the impact at its rear, while the truck showed damage at its front: the grille, bumper, hood and front frame.

Hospital H+ Los Cabos recorded that the girl had been thrown from the cart in its notice to the state Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público), the agency that investigates crimes in Mexico.

What the investigation file records about the minutes that followed

Prosecutors keep the interviews, reports and statements gathered on a case in an investigation file (carpeta de investigación).

According to a statement in the prosecutors' investigation file, the girl's father pulled her out from under the truck once its front right tire had passed over her body.

According to a statement in the prosecutors' investigation file, no one on Querencia's staff called 911 or any emergency service.

No notice of the crash reached the police from the scene, police records show. According to a police report dated March 27, 2025, when the crash reached municipal police through C2, a command and monitoring center, at 12:54 p.m., municipal traffic police (Tránsito) had received no report of it.

At Hospital H+ Los Cabos

According to a police report dated March 27, 2025, and a notice from the prosecutors' early-attention unit (Unidad de Atención Temprana), Hospital H+ Los Cabos admitted the girl at about 10:40 a.m. Her father and the club's doctor (under investigation) were with her when she arrived.

Her discharge order (orden de egreso), dated March 28, 2025, records a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9 when she entered the trauma room, rising to 14 after initial treatment; the scale is a standard gauge of how alert and responsive a patient is.

The hospital's notice to prosecutors describes significant respiratory distress, generalized crackles in both lungs and decreased oxygenation.

The diagnosis recorded at the hospital was pediatric polytrauma, head trauma, blunt chest trauma, pulmonary contusion and laceration, a traumatic pneumatocele (a pocket of air that forms in injured lung tissue) and a 10% laminar pneumothorax (air trapped in a thin band around the lung, inside the chest), with a guarded prognosis (pronóstico reservado), the term doctors use when an outcome is uncertain. Brain and spinal injury were ruled out by a CT scan.

The on-duty emergency physician at Hospital H+ Los Cabos, interviewed by a state investigator on March 25, 2025, described her injuries as ones that "may put her life at risk" (translated from Spanish: "pueden poner en riesgo la vida").

She was hospitalized from March 25 through March 28, 2025, and her discharge order instructed her to avoid immersion in water and contact sports. More of her medical record is in what happened on March 25, 2025, and what the hospital records show.

How the authorities found out

It was the hospital, not Querencia's staff, that brought the crash to the authorities' attention, the records show. Hospital H+ Los Cabos's notice to the Ministerio Público is timed 12:20 p.m.

In a separate step, the hospital reported the case through C2; municipal police answered that report at 12:54 p.m., went to the hospital at 1:15 p.m. and alerted the early-attention unit at 2:31 p.m., according to a standardized police report (Informe Policial Homologado) dated March 25, 2025. The unit's own notice records that it alerted investigative police (Policía de Investigación) at 2:59 p.m., a sequence set out step by step in how the authorities found out about the accident.

What happened next

The truck's inspection took place not at the scene but at a body shop, at 12:26 p.m. on March 26, 2025, according to its inspection record.

The investigation file was opened for four offenses: unintentional bodily injury (lesiones culposas), failure to render aid (omisión de auxilio), property damage (daños) and failure to file a medical report (omisión de informe médico).

On July 15, 2026, according to court records, a prosecutor asked a Juez de Control, the pre-trial judge who oversees the investigation stage, for an initial hearing (audiencia inicial), at which prosecutors may formally bring charges, against the driver, the club's doctor (under investigation) and Querencia Construcciones, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexican limited-liability company named in that request. Such a hearing is not a trial. How the criminal case works in Mexico explains each stage, and an overview of the Querencia Los Cabos case brings the steps together.

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