Newport Beach Crash Victims’ Daughters ‘Destroyed’ by Alleged DUI Offender

Newport Beach Crash Victims’ Daughters ‘Destroyed’ by Alleged DUI Offender
Santa Ana parents Henry Eduardo Saldana-Mejia and Gabriela M. Andrade were killed after the car they were riding in was hit by an impaired driver, and their three children were injured, on Dec. 8, 2020. Courtesy Maria Corrigan
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Moments after an alleged drunk driver slammed her Range Rover into a subcompact car carrying a family of five, a young survivor made a heartbreaking effort to help her mom.

“She describes the moment when my sister was in the car,” Maria Corrigan, who lost her sister in the crash, told The Epoch Times. “She was telling her, ‘Wake up, mom,’ but she was telling me [later], ‘I knew my mom and dad were dead.’

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