Miami-Dade County and Florida Power & Light seem to be at odds over outages at two intersections where two people died after being hit by several cars. 

The first incident happened in September. Miami-Dade police said Jose Aviles-Vasquez was crossing the street at Northwest 27th Avenue and Northwest 115th Street near Miami-Dade College when up to eight cars hit him. One car stopped, the rest kept going and police are still searching for those drivers, police said. 

The driver who stopped called 911 and said, "They keep running him over, a whole bunch of people."

At a vigil for Aviles-Vasquez, his wife of 30 years, Gloria Mendez, said, "I don't want anyone to go through what I'm going through now, because I love my husband."

Then, in December at Northwest 17th Avenue and Northwest 114th Street, Ismael Cruz Pratts was trying to cross the road when three cars hit him. He died in the middle of the intersection after being dragged from the crosswalk, police said. 

The first car stopped while the other two kept going. Police are also looking for those drivers. 

"Please come forward," Pratt's daughter, Marjory Rodriguez, said. "He's got kids and grandkids."

"He just got cremated today. It's hard when it's a normal death, but it's worse when you know someone just killed. They killed him," Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez pays tribute to her father every day at a modest memorial she set up above her kitchen sink.

"Just a little corner where I can pay my respects and give him kisses and tell him how much I love him. But it’s empty. It's just flowers, two candles and a picture. That doesn't fill me like my father would have filled me. I can't touch him. I can't see him. I can't tell him I love him. He can't be there for me; and he was my world. They just ripped my heart out," she said.

Miami-Dade police confirmed that during both incidents, the street lights at those intersections were not working. 

Local 10’s Christina Vazquez checked with both Miami-Dade County’s Public Works Department and Florida Power & Light to try and determine why the street lights were not working and what is being done to make sure another outage doesn’t happen. 

The county told her the outage was due to an equipment failure "at the FP&L point of control."

Chief County Engineer Esther Calas, of the Public Works & Waste Management Department, released the following statement: 

"The energy and the switching mechanism needed for the successful operation of the streetlights are under the maintenance purview of FPL… The outages were as a result of equipment failure/malfunction at the FP&L point of control which may occur anywhere throughout the County."

FPL said its records show everything was working just fine and that it doesn’t maintain those lights. 

"Our deepest condolences go out to the families of the victims of these tragic hit-and-run accidents," FPL spokeswoman Marie Bertot said in a statement. “FPL does not own, operate, or maintain the street lights in the areas where the fatalities occurred on Sept. 18, 2011, and Dec. 27, 2011. We provide energy only to these street lights and our records show that we have not experienced any equipment issues along this corridor during the time in question."

After reading their statements, Rodriguez said, "They (are) trying to blame one another. Nobody wants to take the fall now for what happened. This is somebody’s fault. I mean, they can't just be pointing the finger at each other because there is a man that just got cremated today that got hit by three vehicles when there was no lights and this is not the first accident."

Rodriguez said she plans to hire an attorney and continue fighting for answers to prevent others from ever having to know the pain she suffers from losing a loved one. 

"I feel like they are trying to clean their hands," she said. "I want justice because I am not the only family going through this. There is a problem. Somebody has got to be woman enough or man enough to say, 'It's our fault.' There are many families suffering because there are no streetlights where people cannot see other people walking. The drivers have a lot of fault, but those street lights played a role in it."

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the drivers involved in both these incidents is asked to call Miami-Dade police.