The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office identified the victims in Saturdays fatal four-way crash in Seminole as Harvey Delzer, 86, a longtime attorney in Pasco County, and his son, Edward Delzer, 59.

• Deputies identify victims of fatal Pinellas County crash
• Harvey Delzer, 86, and his son, Edward Delzer, 59
• The two men were hit from behind by an SUV that didn't stop

"He was really his fathers friend for about the last ten or 15 years. Thats the reason they were together on Saturday," Harvey Delzer's former law partner said Wayne Coulter of the father and sons relationship. "Anytime his father came into the office, he was with his father."

According to the Sheriff's Office, the Delzers were stopped at a red light on Park Boulevard. just before 7 p.m. Saturday.

An SUV driven by a 60-year-old man heading westbound in the median lane of road didnt stop and hit the back of their car. The impact pushed both cars into cars stopped in the eastbound lanes of Park Boulevard. The father and son were pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said they believe alcohol and speed were factors in the crash.

"Just how tragic it is. It could've been avoided," said Coulter.

Coulter and West Pasco Bar Association President Frances Werner-Watkins said Harvey Delzer was among the first lawyers to set up a practice in Pasco County. He co-founded his firm, Delzer, Edwards & Martin, in Port Richey in 1960. The firm is now known as Delzer, Coulter & Bell, P.A. It focuses on estate and trust administrations, estate planning, and elder law.

Coulter joined in 1972, partnering with Harvey Delzer for 30 years until Delzer retired in the early 2000s.

"Harvey graduated number one in his class from Stetson. He was certainly recognized for his legal capabilities, but also for his impeccable professional ethics," Coulter said.

"He was definitely a pillar of the community," Werner-Watkins said of Harvey Delzer. "Anytime you heard of Delzer and Coulter, the law firm, everybody knew that that was a firm that was pretty prominent in this town."

Most important to Harvey Delzer, according to Coulter, was his family.

Werner-Watkins said she knew the Delzers her entire life. Her mother worked as a legal secretary to Harvey Delzer, and he gave her brother, also an attorney, his first job out of law school.

Another one of her brothers was good friends with Edward Delzer. She said their deaths were a blow to her own family, noting a conversation she had with her brother after learning of the news.

"He said, 'I feel very angry that these two men that lived their lives to basically be good to other people, do the right thing, always be there for anybody, their life was tragically taken,'" Werner-Watkins said.                                                                                 

Aside from the driver of the SUV, who remained hospitalized Monday afternoon, no one else was injured in the crash.

The investigation is ongoing. Criminal charges are pending against the driver of the SUV.