Norma Gladys Cappagli, the first Miss World from Argentina, was urgently admitted after being run over by a bus in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, last Thursday. Suffering from the strong attack, she succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday afternoon and passed away at the age of 81 at the Fernández Hospital.
The news was confirmed by Carla Cappagli, Norma's niece, as she said, “We expected him because of his difficult painting. But she was excellent, without disease problems, with plans. I feel very helpless.” Carla also said that due to the brutal impact Norma Cappagli was ‘in a very serious condition and in a pharmacological coma, hospitalized in intensive care’.
According to the sources, Norma left her apartment located in the Recoleta neighborhood where she used to walk in the afternoon. The witnesses revealed that he had crossed the street well, on the pedestrian path. "She was going through Callao with the traffic light when the bus attacked her, according to a police statement that saw the incident. Now he has judicial intervention since the accident was on public roads”, the niece explained.
The 28-year-old driver was arrested for the crime of culpable injuries. After the impact, the woman was left lying on the asphalt with a cut on her scalp and dizzy as a result of the blow with the inmate 30 of line 110.
“I want it to be clear that she died because she was run over. Not for anything else. COVID-19 did not affect her in this pandemic and the negligence of a bus driver is taking her life. We are shattered. We know that this corner is very dangerous, and that it is not the first time that similar events have occurred”, Carla said.
In 1960, Norma Capaggli was elected Miss Argentina and then travelled to London where she won the Miss World crown besting fifty women who came to the United Kingdom to participate in the contest.
“I never gave importance to the title because the beauty of a person is not measured by physical appearance, but inside. I never clung to the image”, Norma had expressed in an interview.
“I like that people can go out dressed as they want according to their body, style, without following trends. In my time it was unthinkable to see people in sneakers. Life is always faced forward, not backward, adapting to things, with determination, with optimism.I enjoyed life, and I still do. I am grateful, and that is what I would like to convey to the young people of today. If you take it that way, age is just a chronology”, she added.