Early that morning, Mariam and her mother took a minivan to Dagestan's regional capital, Makhachkala.
They made the short trip in Emil's minivan, which he had been using for years to deliver pizza.
Peeling out of the parking lot of the refuge facility Saturday afternoon, he made a brief announcement to the passengers in his minivan.
And that was despite the fact that the image of the van was somewhat larger in the photograph than the image of the elephant, and that the minivan was red, not grey.
When they hit the road the next day, heading home, she sat as far as possible from her husband, in the third row of seats in their Honda Odyssey minivan.
They were all passengers in a minivan travelling in Helmand province.
Ahead of them, young men huddled in the back of a delivery truck, under floral blankets. A minivan shuttled a group of traumatized neighbors toward the Egyptian border.
You may keep your hair short, but you still get it cut, and colored, and blown out -- not to mention the obligatory mani-pedi -- with far greater frequency than the minivan gets an oil change.
For me, a mid-life crisis is a red minivan.
So he pulled in front of the pickup, allowed it to rear-end his minivan and brought both vehicles safely to a stop in the pull-off lane.
WHICH is more dangerous, an elephant or a minivan?
They include 40 cars, 25 SUVs, and one minivan, which "do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover, and rear crashes," the institute says.
Of the three men in the SUV and the occupants of the minivan, only the 5-year-old boy survived.
She lost control soon after and will always be remembered for beating up a minivan with an umbrella, shaving her head and getting multiple tattoos under the influence of alcohol.
His family carried their own bags from the airport and were then driven away in a minivan.
