Alan Gerardo, 10, and Amy Monserrat, 16, killed when struck by vehicles on 78 Freeway in Vista, California

The children had left their car that had stopped on the side of the road to retrieve luggage that had flown off.

On June 18, around 6:10 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of SR-78 near Mar Vista, 10-year-old Alan Gerardo and 16-year-old Amy Monserrat were told by their mother, 33-year-old Sandra Ortiz, to get out of their GMC Yukon SUV to grab luggage that fell off the vehicle.