Dearborn woman dies on way to sister's wedding

Dearborn ? Eitedal Sufian Al-Gaithi was looking forward to attending and being a part of her older sister Noha's wedding on Christmas Day.

It is the custom in her native country of Yemen that everybody in the family participates in the wedding.

But she never made it.

She was killed in a car accident en route to Greenfield Manor, where the wedding was to take place.

"We hadn't even made it inside the hall, and instead of celebrating one daughter's wedding, we're mourning the death of another daughter," said her father, Sufian Al-Gaithi, 40, of Dearborn, who has three other daughters and two sons. Eitedal would have turned 23 on Jan. 23.

She had big dreams, and wanted her husband, Fattah, to share them. But Fattah remained in Bahrain while, her father said, she worked tirelessly trying to bring him to America.

"She was supposed to surprise him by flying there on Wednesday," Al-Gaithi said.

"Now we're trying to get the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain to allow him to come here to see her before she is buried."

Eitedal also cared for others at home.

"She lived with my parents and took care of them because they're both diabetic," said her father. "It is such a big loss for them also. We were afraid to tell them what happened for fear they might both have heart attacks and die themselves."

Al-Gaithi said his daughter was attending nursing school.

Al-Gaithi said his niece, Eiman Alammare, 21, who also was in the car, remains in critical condition in intensive care at Oakwood Hospital.

Eitedal Al-Gaithi and Alammare were ejected from a 2009 Jeep driven by a 20-year-old Dearborn man, Dearborn Police Sgt. Doug Topolski said.

"We're still trying to sort this all out, but it appears they were all northbound on Greenfield about 6:30 p.m. when the Jeep struck a 2008 Chevy Cobalt turning into the Manor, where they were also headed," Topolski said.

"The Jeep spun around and struck a building," he said. "Both of the victims were sitting in the rear seat and were ejected out the passenger door."

The Jeep's driver, a 19-year-old Dearborn woman driving the Cobalt and her two passengers were all treated for minor injuries and released, he said.

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Source: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20111227/METRO01/112270334/1006/rss01

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