Alma de la Rosa spoke out from her hospital bed after an SUV struck her and her cameraman during a live broadcast in Mexico.
De la Rosa, a veteran journalist with 35 years on the air, and her cameraman Cristo Martínez were reporting for Gamavisión Noticias TV from a roadside in Monterrey, Nuevo León last Friday. The pair had been covering a motorcycle accident caused by a landslide that dumped debris onto the avenue, with heavy rain having also toppled a tree near the right lane where they positioned themselves.
Just 33 seconds into the segment, the driver of an SUV appeared to lose control and slid sideways through the middle lane. The vehicle plowed directly into De la Rosa, whose scream was captured on the live feed before she was thrown completely out of the camera’s frame. Martínez was knocked to the pavement in the same impact.
Both were rushed to an area hospital. Gamavisión Noticias TV reported Saturday that both were listed in stable condition. De la Rosa later revealed in a Facebook post that she escaped without any fractures, though Martínez did suffer them.
“My cameraman and I are alive by a miracle. … Thank God,” she wrote on Facebook.
In a video recorded from her hospital room, De la Rosa addressed the incident directly, noting the irony of her long career. “I hadn’t seen the footage, but I could picture it,” she said.
“I am grateful to God, to life, and to everyone who was concerned about us. I want to thank you all. We’re doing better now.”
The correspondent also explained that the segment itself had been intended as a public service warning. “I was actually warning them to slow down a bit — we were in a spot where we had already identified that speed needed to be reduced,” she said.
“Unfortunately, this happened, but well, it’s just part of the job.”
De la Rosa’s survival without fractures and her immediate return to social media to reassure viewers underscored both the dangers faced by field journalists and the veteran reporter’s instinct to communicate through crisis. Martínez’s condition, while involving fractures, was also described as stable.