A 5-year-old boy is fighting for his life in the hospital after he was the sole survivor of a horrific car crash that killed four people in Rialto, including his father and grandparents.
The deadly crash happened on Dec. 15, just a day after Nathaniel Rodriguez turned 5. The boy was in a car with his father, his father’s girlfriend and his grandparents when, for reasons unknown, their vehicle veered off road and hit a tree stump, catching fire.
“That was very heartbreaking, to know my child was awake while he was pretty much burning, his whole face his hands,” said Adriana Shrem, Rodriguez’s mother.
The young boy is in critical condition at UCI Medical Center, where he’s being treated for severe burns to half of his body. His injuries were so severe that he had to have both arms amputated.
