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MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (Map, News) - An Orange County couple whose three children died in a highway crash nearly a year ago have become parents to triplets.

Lori Coble gave birth late Wednesday to two girls and a boy. Ashley, Ellie and Jake were each born a minute apart, each weighing about 4 pounds.

"Lori's in very good condition," Marvin Posner, a doctor at Children's Hospital of Orange County at Mission told KCBS-TV on Thursday. "Both (husband) Chris and Lori are in good spirits today."


The couple's children Kyle, 5; Emma, 4; and 2-year-old Katie were killed on May 4, 2007 when a tractor-trailer rig slammed into the back of the family minivan on Interstate 5 in Mission Viejo. The minivan was stopped in the slow lane of traffic. The trucker was traveling an estimated 70 mph.


Lori Coble, who was driving, and her mother were injured.

The truck driver, Jorge M. Romero, has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of vehicular manslaughter