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发帖数: 19053 | 1 It was a deadly holiday weekend on California roads with 31 fatalities. The
CHP says that's up significantly this year. Three of those deaths were
members of a San Francisco family. Only one child survived when the Prius
they were riding in collided head-on with a mini-van.
This was a close-knit family that was enjoying the American dream. The
father was an immigrant from China. They had celebrated Thanksgiving with
their extended family in the East Bay. Then on Saturday, they were in an
awful and tragic accident while heading back from Tahoe.
"They've always been a very, very loving family," said. "We're still trying
to see what to do and how to kind of cope with our emotions," Maggie Zhao
told ABC7 News. Zhao is a niece of Sheng Kuon Su, the 38-year-old San
Francisco man who was killed along with most of his family in the accident.
She said she and her family had just had Thanksgiving dinner with Su, his
wife Shu Zhen Zhao, and their two children, 8-year-old Shawn and 10-year-old
Elly.
On Saturday, her uncle took his family on a day trip to see the snow. "He
takes his family to Lake Tahoe every year to see the snow and being in San
Francisco, you don't see the snow very frequently, if you ever will," Zhao
said. The tragic accident happened on their way back, on Highway 50 near
Placerville. Their Prius collided head-on with a minivan.
In the van, a 4-year-old girl was killed. Four others survived. In the Prius
, Su, his wife, and son died. Only 10-year-old Elly survived with minor
injuries. Zhao calls that a miracle. "She herself is a miracle and I think
we just need to convey to her that there is a very good reason that she
survived," Zhao said tearfully.
Su was an iron worker who immigrated to the U.S. some two decades ago. "He
does his very best to make sure that his wife and his children have what
they need. He definitely is a very loving father, for sure," Zhao said. The
Sus lived in San Francisco. "They do everything together. They love each
other very, very much, as you can see from the pictures. They have a lot of
smiles. They laugh a lot. It's, I mean, it's a tragedy," Zhao said as she
showed ABC7 News photographs of a loving, caring family.
Zhao and her extended family will now raise 10-year-old Elly. "She's
definitely going to achieve a lot. She needs to know that and we're trying
to convey that message to her every single day, that she's special and the
reason why she survived is a positive reason, not a negative one," she said.
It may have been a miracle. Elly was treated and released from the hospital
the very same day. The CHP says they still don't know the cause of the
accident.
The funeral will be December 5 at Grissom's Chapel in San Lorenzo. | l*********u
发帖数: 19053 | 2 RIP。
珍惜生命，尽量开大而重的车，才不吃亏。 |
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