It started out as the perfect day.
Thirty-year-old Joy Veron, a teacher from Texas, was vacationing with her children in the gorgeous Colorado mountains. The whole trip had been practically idyllic, and the kids were just getting ready to have one more refreshing swim before making the trek home.
That’s when events took a turn for the worst.
Joy’s three young children (between ages two and seven) scurried ahead to the SUV, which was parked near the edge of a cliff—with the engine running. Within mere seconds, the vehicle shifted into gear and started to roll near the cliff’s edge, which led down to a steep canyon.