WATCH: Mother Of NJ Family Killed In Crash: 'I Want Justice'

TEANECK, NJ — Mary Rose Ballocanag said she plans to sue the man who crashed into her car and killed her husband and four daughters on a Delaware highway earlier this month.

Ballocanag, 56, appearing with her attorney, Diane Luciana, spoke publicly at a press conference at Kessler Rehabilitation Center. She talked for the first time about what she wants to see happen to Alvin S. Hubbard, the man who crashed a truck into her family's car, killing her husband and four daughters.

"I have to bury my husband and four daughters," Ballocanag said. "I want justice for them. I want to see him criminally prosecuted. All my broken bones will heal but not the unbearable pain in my heart."

Ballocoanag's husband, Audie Trinidad, 61, and their children Kaitlyn, 20, Danna, 17, and 13-year-old twins, Melissa and Allison died in the crash. The family lived in Teaneck.

"When they died, part of me died. Justice will not bring them back, but we will be in a safer place. I know Audie is with them and he will take care of my girls. I miss them so much," Ballocoanag said as she wiped away tears at a press conference at . "Now that they are all gone I have nothing to look forward to but justice for them."

Ballocoanag said she plans on filing a civil suit against Hubbard and his company Aledak Metalworks, of New Market, Maryland.

Ballocanag and Luciana said Hubbard is criminally negligent in the case. They said they cannot understand why criminal charges have not been filed against him weeks after the crash. Motor vehicle charges have not been filed against Hubbard either.

"We really feel the man should be handcuffs, behind bars," Luciana said. "We want that soon."

Delaware authorities have indicated that this is not a clear-cut case of driving while intoxicated, Luciana said.

"Because of that, this has become a big complicated investigation," Luciana said. "They claim no stone will be unturned. The deputy attorney general has indicated that [the investigation] may take a few months."

She complained that Hubbard has not called or reached out to her to apologize for what happened.

Luciana said she is still waiting to see toxicology reports and other evidence from the Delaware State Police in the case.

Luciana said that Hubbard was driving "crazily" before he crashed into the Toyota Sienna the family was in.

A Delaware State Trooper at the scene said Hubbard did not appear to be intoxicated. Luciana said she is working on getting Hubbard's medical records to see what medications he may have been on when the crash happened.

Luciana said the passenger in Hubbard's vehicle, identified by police as a 30-year-old man from Hurlock, Maryland, said that Hubbard may have experienced a medical episode that caused him to become unresponsive and lose control of the vehicle and crash into the other vehicles. There were no indications of drug or alcohol use by Hubbard following the crash, Luciana said.

Hubbard was brought from the crash scene to a hospital, treated, and released, Luciana said.

"It couldn't have been too serious of a medical issue," Luciana said. "I think what they want to do is bring the highest charges against him, it's just taking time."

The attorney noted that Hubbard is no stranger to the inside of a courtroom. He has been to court five times over debt collections, Delaware court records show.

Lucianna said Hubbard had just finished a welding job and was driving to his home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland when the crash occurred. It was fully-loaded with materials when it crossed over the grassy median and hit the family's vehicle.

The pickup truck crossed over the 60-foot wide center median "for unknown reasons" when it headed south in the northbound lanes, Delaware State Police said during a press conference shortly after the crash.

"There is no way it is legal what he did," Luciana said.

Luciana wants to know why a guardrail was not on the center median, separating the two sides of the highway.

Ballocanag suffered serious injuries in the crash

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Hubbard was driving the truck on the southbound lanes when he hit a Mercury Sable, kept going, and then hit the Trinidad family's minivan in the northbound lanes, Lucianna said. The impact caused the Sable and minivan to leave the highway and end up in a ditch, police said.

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The driver of the minivan, Audie, was wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Delaware State Police.

Audie grew up in the Philippines and, in 1987, he came to the United States when he enlisted in the Navy and served for seven years, according to The Record. "He was proud to be an American," said his brother, Danny, told the publication. "That’s why he joined the Navy."

His four daughters were not properly restrained and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

Linda Douglas, a family friend who created a GoFundMe page far surpassed its $10,000 goal, told nj.com that the family always prioritized their children.

“Audie was the family dad, he was always the dad to pick everyone up in the minivan,” Douglas told nj.com. “We traded off, but no matter whose sweet 16 it was you could always count on Audie.”

Kaitlyn and Dana were both setters on the Teaneck High School head volleyball team, according to the publication. “They were both great players who were loved by all of their teammates,” Teaneck head coach Sue Cipriano told nj.com.

A comedian, Sara Contreras, known as the "Latin Diva of Comedy," was among a number of people who paid tribute to the family once friends, community leaders and family members identified them. She said Danna was a "lovely and brilliant Teaneck High School student and beloved friend of my extended family."

The crash happened at 3:47 p.m. on Route 1 in Townsend, Delaware when a Ford F-350 pickup truck, traveling in the left lane, crossed a grassy center median and hit the family's minivan and a Mercury Sable, police said.

The truck entered the northbound lanes where the Sable was traveling northbound on Route 1, just north of Pine Tree Road. The Toyota minivan was traveling a short distance behind the Sable, police said.

The front driver’s side of the F-350 pickup struck the left rear-side of the Sable, causing the Sable to spin out of control and come to a rest in an embankment, police said.

The F-350 pickup continued operating out-of-control southbound in the northbound lanes when the front of the Sienna struck the passenger's side of the pickup, police said.

The impact caused both vehicles to leave the edge of the roadway and head into a ditch.

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Lead photo: Mary Rose Ballocanag, 53, cradles her broken left arm at a press conference at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in Saddle Brook.

Second photo: Diane Luciana, Ballocanag's lawyer, holds up photos of the Toyota Sienna minivan the Trinidad family was traveling in when Hubbard crashed into them.

Third photo: Luciana holds up a photo of the Ford F-350 truck Alvin S. Hubbard was driving when he crashed into the Toyota minivan.

Fourth photo: The Mercury Sable that Hubbard crashed into before he hit the Trinidad family's minivan.

Other photo: Audie Marquez Trinidad, 61, center, and Mary Rose Ballocanag, second from left, and their daughters, Kaitlyn, 20, Danna, 17, and 13-year-old twins, Melissa and Allison. (Courtesy of GoFundMe, a promotional partner of Patch)