‘We need justice’ | After driver kills Texas teen siblings in head-on crash, family asking him to come forward

DALLAS — Two North Texas youngsters are lifeless after being concerned in a Friday night time automotive crash that additionally left three of their buddies severely injured.

Members of the family instructed WFAA that Crystal Pineda, 16, and Andres Pineda, 15, who’re brother and sister, died in a two-vehicle crash that Dallas police responded to only after 9 p.m. within the 13900 block of Esperanza Highway, close to Spring Valley and Coit roads.

Crystal and Andres have been on their manner with three buddies to get dinner, in response to their cousin Nancy Pineda. When the crash occurred, Pineda mentioned the opposite automotive had crossed over the double-yellow strains and hit the youngsters’ car head-on.

“They have been going actually simply down the road to go get some tacos,” Nancy Pineda mentioned. “They have been going for dinner, they usually did not make it.”

Police: Two lifeless and three injured after head-on crash in Dallas, suspect at massive

On Saturday, relations and buddies have been out on the website of the crash, inserting flowers, footage and mementos in remembrance of Crystal and Andres.

Their stepmom, Daniela Martinez, was on the market as nicely, saying that she discovered concerning the crash when the youngsters’ mother known as her from the scene.

“I could not actually perceive what she was saying, so I simply dropped all the things that I used to be doing,” Martinez mentioned. “I did not even know the place the automotive accident occurred, I simply knew that I needed to drive out right here.”

When she acquired there, Martinez mentioned Crystal was already pronounced lifeless on the scene whereas Andres had been transported to a hospital. Martinez and her household later discovered he died whereas within the hospital.

“I simply want all this have been a nightmare,” Martinez mentioned. “They have been so younger. That they had a life forward of them. They have been good children.”

Casandra Torres was greatest buddies with Crystal, saying she was a very enjoyable particular person to be round.

“Crystal, she was humorous,” Torres mentioned. “She could be there for you everytime you wanted her.”

“Actually sensible, humorous, caring, loving children that did not trigger any issues,” Nancy Pineda mentioned about each Crystal and Andres.

Martinez mentioned she hopes the person who hit their automotive comes ahead quickly.

“It hurts simply to know that the man… he simply left,” Martinez mentioned. “He left them there hopeless. Lifeless. They have been simply children. They have been barely even alive. If he is on the market, he may do it once more. Subsequent time, it might be any individual else’s children, any individual’s mom, any individual’s husband.”

Saturday night time, Dallas police launched a video of the suspect who hit the Pinedas’ automotive, exhibiting a person in a inexperienced shirt driving a truck with the license plate quantity RHF3302.

“We’d like justice for these two little children that had a complete future, a complete life, and now it is taken away by the particular person,” Nancy Pineda mentioned. “For him to return up and personal his personal accountability as a result of if he did it as soon as, what exhibits you that he isn’t going to do it once more.”

The household arrange a GoFundMe for Crystal and Andres Pineda’s funeral preparations that you will discover right here.