Account opened for Modesto crash victims

MODESTO -- Relatives of the three migrant workers who died Monday in an accident on Highway 99 have opened a bank account for people who want to make a donation.

Jose Jaime Botello-Herrera, 21, Erasmo Tello Jaimes, 49, and Ignacio Causor Serrato, 38, were in the back seat of a Cadillac that was rear-ended by a big rig traveling about 55 mph when their car slowed because of a flat tire on the highway Monday morning.

The three west Modesto men were from Buenos Aires, Michoacán, Mexico, a town of 1,300 people. They were here working as farm laborers to earn money to send home to family there.

The Wells Fargo Bank account number is 1529191478. It’s under the name of Rosio Torres.

Three other men in the Cadillac, as well as the truck driver, survived the crash.