Mom Gave Birth to Family’s 1st Girl in Over a Decade. They Died in Crash Just Before Daughter’s 2nd Birthday

A 29-year-old California mother and her 1-year-old daughter were killed in a multi-vehicle crash just two weeks before the little girl’s second birthday.

Ivana Balistreri and her daughter, Lilliana, were identified by relatives as the victims of a four-vehicle collision on northbound Highway 87 in San Jose, which occurred shortly before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Ivana’s fiancé, Zach Martins — who sustained minor injuries but survived — had been driving her to the barbershop where she worked, her oldest sisters, Francesca Alexander and Rosie Balistreri, say…

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