Dark Knight
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2004
- Messages
- 21,649
- Reaction score
- 82
STRATHMORE (CP) - Widowed five years ago by a crash that almost claimed her own life, an Alberta woman is now struggling to deal with the death of her fiance in a crash along the same stretch of highway.
''At 22 I went through more than most people do in a lifetime,'' Kristina Perkin said. ''I'm 27 now and most of the world hasn't gone through half of what I have.''
Perkin's fiancee, 25-year-old Arlyn Ryan, was killed Friday when the minivan he was driving struck a railway overpass on Highway 1 near Chestermere, Alta.
It was just a few kilometres away from where Perkin's late husband was killed in a T-bone collision on Highway 1 near Strathmore in 2001. Perkin, who was three months pregnant at the time of that crash, had to be brought back to life by paramedics.
Mounties continue to investigate Friday's crash but don't believe speed or weather conditions were factors.
Perkin and Ryan were to be married on July 15.
''It took a lifetime to come together and a day to end it,'' said an emotionally defeated Perkin.
The couple had a 22-month-old son. Perkin also has a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter.
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/Z02_00balbertainbrief0529.lasso