Querencia Los Cabos Case Timeline: From a Golf Cart Crash to Hearings Before a Judge
This timeline follows, date by date, a case that began with a crash at Querencia Los Cabos, in San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. On March 25, 2025, on Boulevard Querencia, a golf cart was struck from behind by a RAM 700 truck bearing Querencia markings. A 5-year-old girl riding in the cart was thrown out. The Baja California Sur state attorney general's office (Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Baja California Sur) opened an investigation file (carpeta de investigación). Its prosecutors, the state Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público), investigate crimes and bring charges before a judge. They took the matter to a pretrial judge (Juez de Control) in Los Cabos, who oversees the investigation stage.
Date by date
March 25, 2025, around 10:15 a.m.
On Boulevard Querencia, inside the Querencia Los Cabos development, a RAM 700 truck bearing Querencia markings rear-ends a golf cart carrying one adult and three minors.
March 25, 2025
The girl is thrown from the golf cart.
March 25, 2025, around 10:40 a.m.
According to the hospital's notice to prosecutors and the on-duty physician's interview, the girl is received at Hospital H+ Los Cabos, accompanied by her father and by the club's doctor (under investigation). The time comes from a report of the prosecutors' traffic-offenses unit dated March 27, 2025, and from the notice of the prosecutors' early-attention unit (Unidad de Atención Temprana).
March 25, 2025
Her discharge order records a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9 in the trauma room, rising to 14 after initial treatment. The scale is a standard emergency-room measure of consciousness. The hospital's notice to prosecutors records significant respiratory distress, crackles in both lungs and reduced oxygen levels.
March 25, 2025, 12:20 p.m.
Hospital H+ Los Cabos prepares a notice to prosecutors (aviso al Ministerio Público), timed 12:20 p.m.
March 25, 2025, 12:54 p.m.
According to the police report (Informe Policial Homologado) of March 25, 2025, municipal police handle a report from the hospital through C2, a command and monitoring center. According to the March 27, 2025 report, municipal traffic police had no record of the crash: police received no report from the scene.
March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
According to the March 25, 2025 police report, municipal police arrive at Hospital H+ Los Cabos.
March 25, 2025, 2:31 p.m.
According to the police reports of March 25 and March 27, 2025, municipal police notify the early-attention unit.
March 25, 2025, 2:59 p.m.
The early-attention unit notifies the investigative police (Policía de Investigación).
March 25, 2025, 6:23 p.m.
The golf cart is inspected in the club's parking lot. Finding: rear impact.
March 26, 2025
The driver, under investigation, tells the investigating officer: "I got distracted for a few seconds looking down and could no longer avoid it" (translated from Spanish).
March 26, 2025, 12:26 p.m.
The RAM 700 truck is inspected at a body shop, not at the crash site. Finding: front impact; grille, bumper, hood and front frame damaged.
March 25–28, 2025
Hospitalization. Diagnosis in her CT scans and discharge order: pediatric polytrauma, head trauma, blunt chest trauma, pulmonary contusion and laceration, traumatic pneumatocele, 10% laminar pneumothorax; guarded prognosis. A CT scan ruled out brain or spinal injury. In her March 25, 2025 interview, the on-duty physician said the injuries "may put her life at risk" (translated from Spanish). Discharge order: no water immersion or contact sports.
July 15, 2026
Prosecutors ask the pretrial judge to hold a hearing to formally charge the driver and the club's doctor, both under investigation, and Querencia Construcciones, S. de R.L. de C.V. (a Mexican limited-liability company form, roughly comparable to a U.S. LLC).
July 16, 2026
The pretrial judge sets the hearing for August 26, 2026.
August 26, 2026
The hearing is postponed to September 30, 2026. The judge had asked prosecutors for the name of the legal representative of the company under investigation.
From investigation to criminal case
Prosecutors opened the investigation file for four offenses: unintentional bodily injury, failure to render aid (omisión de auxilio), property damage and failure to file a medical report (omisión de informe médico). Those four offenses are the reason the file was opened; see why an investigation was opened.
On July 15, 2026, prosecutors asked the judge to hold a hearing to formally charge three parties. Court records show that the request for a charging hearing is part of a criminal case before a pretrial judge in Los Cabos.
On July 16, 2026, the judge set that hearing for August 26, 2026. From that date on, the story continues with what happened before the pretrial judge.
Each topic of the criminal case has its own page, gathered under what is on record in the criminal case.
For the day itself, see the March 25, 2025 accident at Querencia Los Cabos; for new steps, see case updates. This page will be updated when the next step in the case is on record.
Key terms, in plain English
- Ministerio Público: the state Public Prosecutor's Office, which investigates crimes and decides whether to prosecute.
- Carpeta de investigación: the prosecutors' investigation file.
- Juez de Control: the pretrial judge, who oversees the investigation stage.
- Audiencia inicial / formulación de imputación: the first hearing before that judge, where prosecutors may formally bring charges; it is not a trial.
- Causa penal: the criminal case once it is before a judge.