Three young children are dead and their father has been left paralysed after a suspected intoxicated driver crashed into their car, 

Somchai Lurak, 26, was driving with his children Aneena, 6, Kya, 5, and Drayka, 3, and fiancee Emma Weigand on August 11 when a car ploughed into the back of them at a roadworks traffic light, near Bellevue, Idaho, police said.

Two of the children were pronounced dead at the scene, and 3-year-old Drayka of Mountain Home died at a Boise hospital.

The father was listed in critical condition at a Boise hospital on Monday, and his partner, 26, was also hospitalised suffering several fractures in the crash.

When Lurak woke up in hospital, he was told by his brother that he had lost his three children in the horrific accident.

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