7 family members killed in a single accident on their way to Las Vegas
While on their way to Las Vegas, seven family members died in a head-on car collision in eastern Oregon. The driver of the other car also passed away.
On August 13, 2018, tragedy struck. 29-year-old Erika Boquet, her three children, 29-year-old Kyla Brown, and her two children passed away after their 2016 Toyota 4Runner was hit by a 1999 Toyota 4Runner driving on the other side of the road.
Oregon State Police revealed that the collision happened when the 1999 model crossed on the other lane and smashed into Boquet’s vehicle.
Everyone was pronounced dead on the scene, as revealed by the police in a statement.
‘Hard to fathom’: 7 members of Washington family, including 5 kids, killed in head-on crash in Oregonhttps://t.co/AqCsHKwzlq pic.twitter.com/z3BmwkZRhe
— Q13 FOX Seattle (@Q13FOX) August 15, 2018
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Boquet took her kids Isabella, 11, Elizabeth, nine, and Tytis, six, along with Brown and her children Arianna, 10, and Xavier, two, on the road as they were supposedly headed to Las Vegas.
Brown was reported to be the girlfriend of Boquet’s father, Louis Johnson.
'It hurts bad': Father mourns 7 Tacoma family members, kids killed in car crash: https://t.co/6906kljpI3 pic.twitter.com/Oj04gCA3Nz
— KOMO News (@komonews) August 16, 2018
The family was driving from Washington and was supposed to meet Johnson in Las Vegas. At the time of the incident, which occurred around 10 a.m., Johnson was on a flight headed to Nevada.
On his Facebook page, the father and grandfather expressed his devastation over the accident.
“My heart hurts like it never hurt before. I have no answers to a 1000 whys. We lost 7 loved ones and the pain we feel is deep. I need to see the love I lost in you,” he wrote
Aside from Johnson, Boquet’s brother, Jessie Tate, also expressed his sentiments over the incident through an interview with The Oregonian.
Speaking with the publication, he said, “It’s a tragedy I wouldn’t wish on anyone else.”
Tate also set up a GoFundMe page to ask for donations to help with the funeral expenses.
A large crowd of mourners is here at a vigil in Tacoma for a family killed in a car accident in Oregon. We try to capture the feelings being shared on #komonews at 11pm pic.twitter.com/57BiWXLQom
— Joel Moreno (@JoelMorenoKOMO) August 16, 2018
As of now, the page has exceeded its 10,000-dollar goal and has raised over $60,000.
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