Vigil Held for Kids, Dad Killed in Waterford Crash

Friends and family gathered in Meriden Friday evening to remember the father and two children who died after a tractor-trailer struck their car on Interstate 95 in Waterford last weekend.

Three-year-old Dacari Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene Sunday. His father, 26-year-old Darin Robinson, and sister, 9-year-old Sanaa Reynolds, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital this week.

The children's mother and Robinson's girlfriend, 25-year-old Baughnita Leary, was driving the car and remains hospitalized.

Hundreds headed to Meriden City Park on Franklin Street on Friday evening in a show of support for Leary, the lone survivor.

City pastor Dante Moss joined relatives of the Leary, Robinson and Reynolds families to lead a prayer and hold moment of silence.

State Rep. Elizabeth Esty, Meriden State Reps. Hilda Santiago and Catherine Abercrombie, students, teachers and school officials from Meriden were also expected to attend.

State police said the crash happened at 7 p.m. Sunday when a tractor-trailer – owned by Gold Medal Bakery, of Fall River, Massachusetts – crashed into the family's car on I-95 southbound.

Two other vehicles were also involved, but none of those occupants were seriously injured.

Regan Technologies, Leary's employer, is collecting donations on the family's behalf. Donations can be sent to:

The Baughnita Leary Fund
c/o Regan Technologies
860 North Main Street Extension
Wallingford, CT 06492

For more information about the Baughnita Leary Fund, call Regan Technologies Director of Human Resources Donna Regan at 203-284-4125.

Two separate GoFundMe pages have also been set up to raise money for the family members' funerals. You can donate to the children's page here, and to Darin Robinson's page here.

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