Editing Susan Barrantes (section)

==Death==
While returning to her country home on 19 September 1998, the [[Rover 400 / 45|Rover 400]] she was driving collided head on with a Renault catering truck on a two-lane highway in flat countryside.<ref name="Ind-death">{{cite web |date=21 September 1998 |title=Fergie's mother killed in car smash |url=https://www.independent.ie/world-news/fergies-mother-killed-in-car-smash-26174975.html |access-date=25 November 2020 |work=Irish Independent}}</ref> The driver of the truck, Jose Maria Rodriguez, suffered a broken ankle, but Barrantes was not wearing a safety belt and was decapitated, aged 61.<ref name="Ind-death" /> Barrantes' 25-year-old nephew, Raphael, was in her car and was hospitalized with minor injuries. Barrantes had been involved in a road traffic crash the year before when her car flipped an estimated seven times.<ref name="BBC-death">{{cite news |date=22 September 1998 |title=Fergie mourns mum |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/177434.stm |access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref>

Susan Barrantes is buried beside her second husband in a vault beneath her home, next to a polo field on the "El Pucara" estate in Tres Lomas, Argentina.<ref name="BBC-death" /> Her death came just one year after that of her daughter's former sister-in-law [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], [[Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales|whose funeral]] Susan and Sarah had both attended.<ref>{{cite news |date=22 September 1998 |title=Press pursue Duchess before mother's funeral |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/175805.stm |access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>