There Is No Hindsight

Seven members of one family driving through southern Nevada from their home in Southern California. A lot of people on the roads during the Easter week-end, many visiting family members living elsewhere, in a yearly tradition of family get-togethers. Or just simply taking the opportunity on a public holiday and the arrival of spring to enjoy a holiday away from the routines of ordinary life.

They would little expect that they would never, ever have the opportunity to gather together again, for any reason; ordinary family routine, visiting relatives living elsewhere, or taking a bit of a holiday outside their home environment. Five of the family of seven who were travelling in the family van are now dead, victims of an accident, a vehicle collision.

The driver of their van did nothing wrong. The driver of a sport utility vehicle, an 18-year-old named Jean Soriano, struck the family van from behind. With enough force to leave only the 40-year-old female driver of the family van and a 15-year-old boy, alive.

The young man driving the sport utility vehicle, also a resident of California, had been treated and released at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. The two remaining family members who were not killed outright, remain hospitalized, in critical condition.

Jean Soriano has been booked into the Clark Country Detention Center, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.