It was a typical Tuesday morning, Alana Baxter was at home and her husband had driven the kids to school. But the day took a sour turn when she received a call from the kids' school, Winterburn, telling her that the kids never m
ade it to school. Just a few minutes away from home, Alana found that her husband, John Baxter, 42, and two kids, Julianne, 9, and Coral Sky, 7, had been killed instanty when a VIA passenger train crashed head on into their car where the tracks intersect the road. John's brother, James, told the press it was very unusual this would happen, as John had driven the same road thousands of times, and this kind of accident was "one of those senseless things you can't explain". John had also just recovered from brain surgery two weeks ago, after a bad sinus infection spread to his brain. Karyn Hick is the only known witness of the accident, saying that she too had been driving on the road, but conditions had been so poor she was driving 10 kilomeres an hour, and that the wind blown snow must have caused the accident. Regardless of circumstance, this was a tragic freak accident, and I give the family my sincerest condolensces.
ade it to school. Just a few minutes away from home, Alana found that her husband, John Baxter, 42, and two kids, Julianne, 9, and Coral Sky, 7, had been killed instanty when a VIA passenger train crashed head on into their car where the tracks intersect the road. John's brother, James, told the press it was very unusual this would happen, as John had driven the same road thousands of times, and this kind of accident was "one of those senseless things you can't explain". John had also just recovered from brain surgery two weeks ago, after a bad sinus infection spread to his brain. Karyn Hick is the only known witness of the accident, saying that she too had been driving on the road, but conditions had been so poor she was driving 10 kilomeres an hour, and that the wind blown snow must have caused the accident. Regardless of circumstance, this was a tragic freak accident, and I give the family my sincerest condolensces. I am imaging that the recovery time of brain surgery would not be as rapid as he chose to drive, and that John may have been on pain killers at the time. It is, I would say, a likely possibility that this, combined with the terrible weather and bad safety bars, is the reason why the accident occured. If this was true, though, I don't believe he would be accountable, as if the weather had been better, this accident would more than likely not have happened. Here is the original article about this tragic story.
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