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Yesterday early evening, two young adults (22 yr olds) were turning and were struck headon by an oncoming car. Since this happened on the highway, obviously the oncoming car was going pretty fast. Both died instantly.

edit: They weren't turning, in per se, turns out that they were driving on an S curve, and somebody going the other way made a stupid, stupid, stupid and illegal decision to pass somebody else on an S curve. So both cars were driving very fast, and I have no idea what happened with the other vehicle.
The horrible thing is, Craig's best friend and cousin Chad, who is an Emergency First Responder, was the first on the scene of the accident, to find his best friend and another one of his best friends DOA.

Thier names were Craig and Denise. Chris has known them pretty much his whole life, he went to school with them and grew up with/around them both. I've known Craig for a few years now, and Denise for I guess about three years.
Craig was living in Ontario for the past few years, going to University. He was working his way to a law degree, and eventually wanted to go into politics. He wanted to change the world. (Or take over it, if you asked him.)
Denise was going into nursing, in fact I'm pretty sure she had almost finished her education. She was Chris' first playground kiss.
Both of them were beautiful people, inside and out, good friends to each other and to all those who knew them. Always full of laughter and smiles, willing to try almost anything once, the kind of people who are so full of life. Between the two of them they affected literally hundreds of lives.

They were headed into town for a goodbye party / one last get together before craig went back to ontario. He was only here for a few days, I think half and half for grad and just for visits.

And they both died instantly on the highway yesterday evening, at the age of 22.

Has anyone close to you ever died?
I don't mean like ill old relatives, where you kind of know ahead of time it's going to happen. I mean like, killed instantly, died young, shocking, 'I can't believe it, but people don't joke about that' kind of died.

Did you know anyone who died in a tragic accident?

I feel they are both in a better place, but I can't help but cry for what they both could have been and could have done. And I cry for thier many many family members and friends who loved them.
Hundreds of tears were shed last night, and thousands more will be shed over the next few weeks, as many people across Canada (and possibly further) mourn this tragic accident.

The worst thing is, I had to tell a few people, and I felt just awful because when my name shows up on the caller id the first thing everyone seems to think about is 'baby' ... it's horrible that people think i'm calling to tell them about a new young life, but i'm really calling about a new young death.


Setzer: if you really want to lock this one because 'it could have gone in a conversation topic' ... that's your deal. But it's not like there's a million active topics going on. And it seemed worth a topic to me. Seems to me that when people so, so young die, that in itself is something that can tend to make people think, and talk.

At those instances in time, I'd like to play god and take some horrible people and switch places...

So the good lives on, and the bad dies off. It irks me when really great people like that are just gone.





I've only had a childhood friend killed. I hadn't seen him in years, and suddenly I find out he has been shot in the head.

My sympathy to you, your hubby and to Craig and Denise's family and friends. These tragedies occur way too often and tear too many families and hearts appart.