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Family of four killed by wrong-way driver

| August 14, 2010 9:00 PM

ELMORE COUNTY (AP) - The Idaho State Police say an arrest warrant has been issued for a 45-year-old south-central Idaho man involved in a head-on collision on Interstate 84 that killed four members of a California family.

ISP says Eusebio Jacobo Pineda of Wendell was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes Thursday night near Glenns Ferry when his pickup hit a car. The collision killed Amado Herrera, 48, of S. El Monte, Calif., who was driving, along with Luz Herrera, Ivett Herrera, 18, and Antoni Herrera, 9.

Jacobo Pineda was hospitalized in Boise. The ISP says he will be arrested on four counts of felony vehicular homicide.