RIP Lola

**LDMA** · 26th November 2007 20:41

Ok, well you guys probably won't have a clue who I'm on about, but today I was gutted to learn that a childhood friend of mine, Lola Almudevar was killed in a car accident in Bolivia.
Lola was a girl I used to hang round with in Nottingham, we were friends , not overly close, but close enough that we'd pile round her house once in a while and gatecrash her birthday party 3 years in a row without fail. My mate Michael was the first guy to get to snog her, which he got great kudos for, and she was a totally mad smiley person to be around.

I then did not see or hear from her from about 1995 til this year when I joined Facebook and found out from her profile she was travelling around Bolivia, one day she pointed to a BBC news article that she had penned and I and many others were impressed with how far she'd come.

She was on her way to report on a demonstration, when her car collided into two trucks that had already crashed and was killed instantly. The colleague she was travelling is seriously injured in hospital.

Lola was 29, in her prime, her journalist career was taking off, and I'm totally gutted.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bolivia crash kills BBC reporter

http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/200...almudevar.html

Here is the last report she made on the legalisation of Bolivia's coca leaf.

http://democracyctr.org/mp3/bolivia_coca.mp3

**jimbo** · 26th November 2007 20:45

All the best to Lola's family and friends at this difficult time.....

**blackjack** · 26th November 2007 20:50

Sorry to hear it Louis.

**Loxley** · 26th November 2007 20:58

RIP im sure that smile will be missed

LDMA are you from Nottingham?

**LDMA** · 26th November 2007 21:03

Yes I am...are you?

My thoughts go out to Lola's little sister Becca who has been so busy contacting Lola's friends on Facebook, and of course her Mum and Dad....must be heartbreaking.

**Loxley** · 26th November 2007 21:08

I am yes...at least she died pursuing her dream which most people fail to do

**LDMA** · 26th November 2007 21:18

Where 'bouts in Notts?

Originally Posted by Loxley

at least she died pursuing her dream which most people fail to do

She certainly did....still a taxi at three AM is no way to go.

**Loxley** · 26th November 2007 21:26

Born in Mansfield...moved to Beeston, then when I left home at 17 llived in Basford, Sherwood, Carlton and Lenton....and you?

**LDMA** · 26th November 2007 21:29

Born in the Park, moved to just outside Wysall in the boonies, lived in West Bridgford for a while.

**Loxley** · 26th November 2007 21:37

Ah the upmarket areas, very nice...I also lived in the meadows...not so far from West Bridgford...Notts is quite a rough place these days

**esoteric1** · 26th November 2007 21:40

sorry to hear about your friend Louis

**phuketbound** · 26th November 2007 21:50

Sorry to hear LDMA. Very sad news, Indeed.

**greenleaf** · 26th November 2007 22:12

Sorry to hear the sad news. People die everyday from one way or another, you would think we would be used to it by now, but it just never seems to get any easier...

**Umbuku** · 26th November 2007 22:25

Condolences Louis.

Losing anyone leaves a hole.

Fill it with happy memories mate.

**grasshopper** · 27th November 2007 01:45

sorry mate - know what it's like to lose a friend - condolences

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