The Region - News from Dec. 7, 1986

Insurance firms have agreed to pay $220,000 to a Fullerton man whose wife and three children were killed, and $230,000 to two other children who were injured by a drunk driver in 1984. The driver, Michael W. Reding, a 27-year-old engineer from Fullerton, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the deaths of Pamela Trueblood, 36, daughter, Kerry, 9, and sons, Eric, 11, and Scott, 8. Robert F. Trueblood, who lost his entire family in the crash on State College Boulevard in Fullerton on Oct. 23, 1984, will receive $220,000. Brian Rector, now 14, of Fullerton, will receive $80,000. Shawn Ratcliff, a 5-year-old boy from Anaheim whom Pamela Trueblood had been baby sitting on the day of the crash, will get $150,000. Four insurance firms that sold policies to Reding, Trueblood and his late wife shared in the settlement.