SUGAR LAND, Texas — A Fort Bend County family is heartbroken after their father died and their mother was injured following a wrong-way crash in Sugar Land.
Police said it happened on US Highway 90 just after 3 a.m. Officers said a Honda Pilot heading east in the westbound lanes hit a vehicle with a husband and wife inside.
The family said Prosper Kiswaga and his wife, Pendo Mpiluka Kiswaga, were coming home from a community gathering when the crash happened. Four of Kiswaga’s daughters sat down with KHOU 11 News to discuss the difficult tragedy they’re experiencing.
“He’s a happy man, he was full of life. Anyone that knew him we’ll tell you that Prosper is the nicest man,” Catherine Prosper Kiswaga, their oldest daughter, said.
Prosper was a longtime IT specialist who worked from home, but always made time to bond with his children, like his daughter Priscilla.
“It still feels unreal. The night before we were talking about things we were going to do and the plans he had for me after high school,” she said.
Prosper was also a member of St. Faustina Catholic Church and devout in his faith.
He and his wife Pendo were going out that Sunday.
“They had like a community gathering, they always have it yearly and people would gather and talking about the things going on,” Mourine Mwaipopo said.
She said she got an alert on her phone about an accident.
They went to the scene where she said they were kept far back.
Sugar Land Police identified the wrong-way driver as 41-year-old Gonzalo Christian Sosa. Sosa died at the scene.
“It’s really difficult to process it. Like, why at that particular time, why would you be driving in the wrong direction?” Esther Matiku said.
The close-knit family said it has received support from groups including the Tanzanian Houston Community, who wrote a post on Facebook calling Prosper a man of integrity and kindness.
Their mother, a nurse at Baylor St. Luke’s in the Medical Center, suffered a fractured pelvis, a fractured eye socket and cheekbone, a broken femur, a broken wrist, three broken fingers and several broken toes.
“It’s going to be a challenge adjusting to whatever the new normal is going to be,” Catherine Kiswaga said.
This Catholic family is leaning on their faith while their mother is still in the hospital. The Kiswaga’s have organized a GoFundMe to help with funeral and medical expenses.
The investigation into the crash is still ongoing.