It takes Dayana Saldana Meija a minute to collect herself.
Since the fatal car collision in Newport Beach that killed her brother and sister-in-law on Dec. 8, she’s been focused on taking care of the three children left behind.
She said she was doing all right. Better, she adds. Her voice still falters when she speaks about Henry Saldana Meija or Gabriela Andrade, or about her nieces, Samantha Belen, 1, Elena Sareen, 4, and Emma Sofia, 5.
What could she say about her brother?
About the sister she’d never had?
“As parents, they were very loving. They were always together,” Dayana Saldana Meija said from her Santa Ana home on Monday. “They went for a ride together that [Dec. 8] night. My brother used to work a lot, but he was taking a break from work and Gabby was a stay-at-home mom, so she was always with [the girls].”
Joven atropelló a toda una familia y dejó huérfanas a tres niñas
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Pictured, Henry Eduardo Saldana-Mejia, wife, Gabriela Andrade and their 3 children. Image via GoFundme.
“Hey, are you there? What happened?” And nobody answered me’
Coleman’s Range Rover is said to have hit the couple’s Nissan Versa which they were traveling in with their three children, aged one, three and five, at around 7.45pm on Tuesday.
The young children are reported to have been in the back seat of the car and later taken to hospital in a critical condition.
At the time of the crash, the family had gone with the father, who worked two jobs, to collect his belt and shoes from the Resort at Pelican Hill – where he worked as a houseman.