A family in Washington, US, is mourning the loss of a father and three children after their 17-year-old teenager fell asleep at the wheel and the vehicle fell off a cliff.
“I don’t know if I can get used to the fact that after school they don’t come in the door and call me. They were huge. They were my whole life,” said Zella Blair, the mother of the two youngest, touched in an interview with KREM2.
Last Saturday, the small family from Spokane, Wash., were on their way to a roughly 440-kilometer trip to visit grandfather in Idaho when they reportedly fell about 30 feet into a river, the New York Post reported Thursday.
According to several American media reports, the 17-year-old driver Dakota fell asleep there. The accident is believed to have killed her father, Calvin Miller, 36, as well as the young driver, and her siblings, Jack, 10, and Delilah, 8.
“Dakota went off the freeway, hit a large pile of rocks, and threw the vehicle through the air,” the incident report said. The vehicle struck another large rock pile, rolled over and landed upside down in the Salmon River.”
A fisherman reportedly found the vehicle upside down in the water, the Idaho County coroner posted on Facebook the next day.