The Pickering
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Durham Daily News Late arrival Every weekday at noon Oshawa General a boon to Pickering Page 13 Charges laid in crash that devastated family
Police say driver Thursday a Pennsylvania man has “We’ve been told that he’s ac- truck travelling north in the south- charged with three counts of ho- been charged with three counts of cepted his responsibility,” Ms. St- bound passing lanes slammed into micide by vehicle while driving was well over legal vehicular homicide. Denis said Friday morning. them. under the influence and other re- blood-alcohol limit Angela St-Denis, 52, said in an “He knows he was in the wrong. Roger St-Denis, 52, daughter lated charges. He remains in cus- interview she’d been told by police The blood levels prove he was in Angela Michelle, 15, and 21-year- tody after failing to post $100,000 in Pennsylvania the man whose the wrong.” old son Paul were killed in the (US) bond. By Jeff Mitchell pickup truck was going the wrong The St-Denis family was heading collision. Ms. St-Denis and her Since the crash Ms. St-Denis, [email protected] way on an interstate highway and south to Florida for a Christmas 22-year-old daughter, Therese, who has volunteered as a counsel- slammed into her family’s van was holiday when the crash occurred survived, although they sustained lor for victims of crime and trag- PICKERING — The survivors found to have as much as three in Bedford Township, about 130 injuries. edy, has said she feels no anger of a horrific highway crash that times the legal amount of alcohol kilometres southeast of Pittsburgh. On Thursday justice officials toward the man who caused the claimed the lives of three mem- in his blood when the crash oc- The St-Denis’s minivan was pass- in Pennsylvania announced 23- crash. Friday she said that right bers of a Pickering family learned curred early Dec. 23. ing a tractor trailer when a pickup year-old Jeremy Grimes had been now her profound loss and the physical pain she’s enduring are foremost in her mind. “At this point I have other things that are consuming me,” she said. THE FIGHT FOR PIKE IN PICKERING But Ms. St-Denis vowed that in the event the charges result in a trial, she’ll be there: “I definitely will attend the trial if it ever goes to trial.” An estimated 800 people at- tended an emotional funeral ser- vice for the accident victims in Pickering on Wednesday.
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