MISSION VIEJO : Benefit Planned for Crash Victim, Sister

The softball teammates of 11-year-old Karie Minzey, who was critically injured in a crash last week that killed her parents, will hold a carwash Saturday to raise money for the girl and her older sister.

“They wanted to do something,” said Caryn Chandler, a manager and coach with the Mission de Oro Bobby Sox League who is helping to organize the carwash.

The carwash will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in an Alpha Beta and Carl’s Jr. parking lot at La Paz Road and Marguerite Parkway in Mission Viejo. Donations will be requested and all proceeds will go to a trust fund set up to benefit Karie and Shelby Minzey.

Karie Minzey, whose condition was upgraded Wednesday to serious but guarded, remains at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana. She was riding home from a softball game on July 11 with her parents, Mark and Noreen Minzey, when their car was struck head-on by an allegedly intoxicated driver, Dr. Ronald Allen of Laguna Beach.

Mark and Noreen Minzey were both killed in the crash. Two other passengers were injured, but treated and released from the hospital.

The Minzeys’ 15-year-old daughter, Shelby, was visiting relatives in Georgia at the time of the crash.

Allen, 31, was arrested after the crash and has been charged with two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter.

Mark and Noreen Minzey had volunteered their time with the Mission de Oro Bobby Sox League.

Donations can also be sent to the trust fund established at the Bank of Orange County, 27230 La Paz Road, Mission Viejo, 92692. Checks should be made out to the Karie and Shelby Minzey Trust Fund.