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Donations pour in for couple that lost 3 children in suspected DUI crash

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(WJLA/CNN) - Good Samaritans are trying to help a Maryland couple who lost all three of their children in a suspected DUI crash.

Police say the kids were killed after their family car was rear-ended Sunday night.

A photo of this now shattered family was shared on a GoFundMe page that seeks to support Alexis and Juanita Mejia as they cope with critical injuries and the deaths of all three of their children.

It was about 9:40 Sunday night, when Prince George’s County Police say a suspected drunk driver slammed into the Mejia’s car, at a stoplight on Indian Head Highway in Maryland.

His pickup truck - crushing the sedan's rear end.

And in an instant, one-year-old Isaac and five-year-old twins Rosalie and Alexander were gone. 

Investigators say the siblings died on impact, while their parents, sitting in the front seat, were seriously hurt and rushed to the hospital.

The GoFundMe page, asking people to keep the couple in their prayers.

And over the last few hours, donations have poured in, from friends and family, and even strangers who want to help this shattered family however they can.

More than $24,000 has been raised for the Mejia family through GoFundMe.

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