A fundraising effort has been launched for the children of Aura Garcia, who was killed when a Boston drawbridge crushed her on Tuesday. Updated: 5:54 PM EST Jan 1, 2014 Todd Kazakiewich Reporter ...

Aura Garcia lived just around the corner from the Meridian Street bridge, a two-lane drawbridge over the Chelsea River. Usually the East Boston resident took the bus to Chelsea on the other side.

His adoring mother, Aura Garcia, was killed in a horrible drawbridge accident in East Boston Dec. 31, leaving her son and 15-year-old daughter, Nancy ?Garcia. But out of tragedy, good sometimes comes.

Aura Garcia, 43, was crossing the Meridian Street Bridge in East Boston around noon, when the operator raised a bridge for a boat — trapping her between two plates, The Boston Globe reports.

46-year-old Aura Garcia, seen here with her daughter, was killed on the Meridian Street Bridge. “I couldn’t see her, but I could hear her,” witness Waldina Garcia, 47, told the Boston Globe.

The woman, identified by her family as Aura Garcia, 46, was crossing the bridge around noon when a bridge operator, not aware that she was on the bridge, began raising it for the boat in the ...

Family friend David Agosto said Garcia had two children, ages 3 and 15. "It hurts a lot because she was very close to us and it's not easy you know," Agosto said.