Vineland Driver Admits Drinking, Going 90 MPH Crash That Killed Family Of 3: Report

A Vineland man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in a crash that killed three members of another family, NJ Advance Media reports.

Modesto Pino (inset) and the family he killed in the November 2020 crash: Iban Garcia-Ruiz, 30, his wife, Elisa Perez-Hernandez, 32, and their son, Ivan.
Photo Credit: *Photo Credit: GoFundMe photos/Cumberland County Jail (inset)*

Jon Craig

02/17/2022 2:15 p.m.

Modesto Pino, 37, admitted he had been drinking and driving at speeds exceeding 90 mph when he slammed into an SUV driven by Iban Garcia-Ruiz, of Bridgeton, on Nov. 1, 2020, the outlet said.

Garcia-Ruiz and his wife, Elisa Perez-Hernandez, 32, were pronounced dead at the crash scene. Their two children were hospitalized and one of them, 1-year-old Ivan, later died.

Last September, Pino was indicted by a grand jury on 15 counts in connection with the crash.

A GoFundMe for the family had raised more than $40,600 as of Feb. 17, 2022.

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