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Three members of a Tucson family died in an accident Sunday afternoon while driving home from a trip to Rocky Point.
Roman Koch, 34, his girlfriend Donna Gill, and daughter Yesenia Koch, 15, were killed in the wreck about 12 miles south of Sonoyta, a border town in Sonora, Mexico southwest of Tucson.
Roman Koch, Jr., 13, survived thanks to a man who rushed to the wreck to help, said Rainee Luna, the boy’s aunt and sister of Roman Koch, Sr.
The family was returning from a vacation in Rocky Point. Luna said the family took time during the trip to dump the ashes of herself and Roman Koch, Sr.’s father, in the sea.
The accident happened when Koch sen. deflected but couldn’t avoid hitting a semi-trailer truck that had stopped on the highway leading from the popular beach town to the Lukeville border crossing, said Luna, who was traveling in a separate vehicle.
The family raises funds on GoFundMe.com to cover repatriation of the bodies to Tucson and funeral expenses.
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