Tragedy Strikes: Family Devastated as Teen Falls Asleep at the Wheel and Plunges Down a Cliff

2023-06-16 13:08:58

A family in Washington, USA is mourning the loss of a father and three children following their 17-year-old daughter fell asleep at the wheel, plunging the vehicle down a cliff.

“I don’t know if I can get used to them not walking through the door following school calling me once more. They were huge. They were my whole life,” said Zella Blair, the mother of the two youngest, with emotion in an interview with KREM2.

Last Saturday, the little family from Spokane, Washington were on their way to a trip of regarding 440 kilometers to visit the grandfather in Idaho when they allegedly fell regarding 30 feet into a river, reported the New York Post Thursday.

According to several American media reports, the 17-year-old girl who was driving, Dakota, fell asleep there. The crash reportedly claimed the lives of her father Calvin Miller, 36, as well as the young driver and her siblings, Jack, 10, and Delilah, 8.


“Dakota veered off the freeway, hitting a large pile of rocks, sending the vehicle flying, the incident report said, according to the US media outlet. The vehicle struck another large pile of rocks, flipping the vehicle over and landing 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.

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