A little boy was orphaned and also lost his two siblings after a suspected drunk driver sped down the wrong side of a California interstate and plowed into his family's car.
Julian Montano, 4, suffered 'extensive injuries' as the lone survivor of the crash after a 'drunk driver (was) traveling the wrong way' on the busy I-80 in Sierra County last early Saturday morning, Anthony Gonzalez, the boy's uncle, wrote in a GoFundMe about a week after the fatal tragedy.
Julian's parents, Brittney and Antonio Montano, both 29, both died in the crash along with his nine year-old sister Marianna and a five year-old brother Antonio Jr , the Nevada County Sheriff's Office said on Monday. The tragedy meant Julian lost every member of his immediate family, and happened while the family was traveling to the Grand Canyon for a Thanksgiving vacation.
'Everybody's suffering from this,' Gonzales told Sacramento news station KCRA.
'This is a giant loss. Four family members at once is too much.'
The only other survivor in the head-on crash was the alleged drunk driver, who was hospitalized, but an official with the California Highway Patrol told the outlet it was too soon to confirm if the driver of the other vehicle had alcohol in his system.
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Pictured: Julian, front left, pictured in front of his sister Marianna to the left and brother Antonio Jr to the right, with parents Antonio and Brittney Montano, both 29-years-old
Of the Montano family, only four-year-old Julian survived Saturday morning's fatal head-on car crash, who were killed by what police suspect was a drunk driver
Pictured: one of the three cars involved in Saturday morning's fatal crash, which left Julian Montano, 4, an orphan after his parents and two siblings were killed
However, the official did reveal 'that's the assumption' of the driver being under the influence.
'Alcohol may have been a factor in the wrong-way driver. It's a little too early to tell but that's the assumption,' Sgt. Steve Casetta with CHP's Gold Run office said soon after the crash.
The Montano family had been en route to the Grand Canyon for Thanksgiving at the time of the fatal crash, according to
