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Orphaned at 3: The Tragedy of Wrong-Way Drunk Driving on Texas Highways — And How Justice Can Still Be Served A Family Destroyed in Seconds: What Happened on Highway 99 It was just after 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Fort Bend County, Texas. A young family of four — Lizbeth Rodriguez Contreras, 27; her husband Diego Pena Jr., 26; and their two children, 5-year-old Camila and 3-year-old Dieguito — were driving home from a Christmas party. They were on Highway 99, a major corridor that connects Houston to the Gulf Coast, when their lives were violently cut short. A wrong-way driver, later identified as Majesti Faith Lee, 27, was barreling down the highway in the opposite direction. Alcohol was a factor. Lee, allegedly impaired, crashed head-on into the family’s car. Lizbeth and Camila were killed instantly. Diego was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries but died shortly after. Only Dieguito, the 3-year-old boy, survived — but his survival came at a devastating cost. He was left orphaned, hospitalized in critical but stable condition, facing a lifetime of surgeries, rehabilitation, and the emotional trauma of losing his entire family in an instant. The Aftermath: A Community in Mourning…