A New Jersey father and his four daughters were killed in a car wreck on Friday afternoon as the family made their way back home from a trip to Ocean City, Maryland.
Police said the family of six was travelling northbound on Route 1 in Delaware just before 4pm when a maroon pickup truck crossed the centre median into oncoming traffic slamming into the family's white Toyota Sienna minivan. The minivan came to stop on the median and looked unrecognizable in photos. Authorities said five of the family members were killed in the crash and pronounced dead at the scene. They have been identified as 61-year-old Audi Marquez Trinidad and his four daughters Kaitlyn, 20; Danna, 17; and twins Melissa and Allison, 13.
The mother, 53-year-old Mary Rose Trinidad, was rushed to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Audi's brother, Daniel Trinidad, told the New York Post that the family was devastated over the sudden loss. 'I'm trying to keep it together. We don't know how we will cope once reality sets in. They're all gone, gone,' he said.' They're a God-fearing family. They go to church. My brother texted me a picture of the blue crabs they ate on the 4th of July. They're all gone in the blink of an eye. Their bodies in the morgue are unrecognizable.' Actress Sara Contreras, from the Showtime show Latin Divas of Comedy, knew 17-year-old Dana and posted a heartfelt message about the teen on her Instagram page.' Danna, a lovely and brilliant new opportunity to value yourself, your family and your friends. Life is too precious and it can all be taken in a second. We grieve as a community for this beautiful family. It's incredibly sad and incomprehensible.' According to Danna's Facebook page, she graduated from Teaneck High School this year. Her sister, Kaitlyn, was also a graduate of the high school. According to reports, she was a nursing student. It's not clear if twins Allison and Melissa were students there.