POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — A Cobb County family needs help providing a funeral for a teenager after a deadly crash.
The collision happened in San Antonio, Texas. Miguel Hernandez, 18, was killed in the wreck. Other members of his family remain hospitalized.
Hernandez was a senior at South Cobb High School. He had just spent the holiday filled with love, celebrating with relatives in Mexico.
But a wrong-way driver upended their plans to return home safe and sound.
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“There's so much anger ... for the person that came and hit us,” Mayra Hernandez of Powder Springs told Channel 2’s Carl Willis.
Hernandez was involved in the crash along Interstate 35 in San Antonio Saturday.
She and her 2-year-old son suffered cuts and burns from the crash.
Her mother and cousin were thrown from the van causing broken bones.
But her little brother, Miguel, suffered from a fatal head injury.
“It was like everything was good seconds before,” said Travis Krebs, Miguel’s brother-in-law.
Police say a suspected drunken driver was going the wrong way on the interstate, hitting a truck and then veereing into the Hernandez van.
"(The van) was just demolished-everything," Krebs told Willis.
Miguel had muscular dystrophy, but family members said the senior never let his condition define him. Rather, it was his heart filled with faith in God and love for others.
“He didn't let his condition get in the way. You would look at him and you wouldn't see the condition he had. He was just like everybody else,” Krebs said.
Willis was there when the family returned to their home Monday, without the young man who they describe as friendly and silly.
“You've just got to hug your loved ones as much as you can and tell them how much you love them because you never know what might happen,” Mayra Hernandez said.
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