"She Loved Her Boys"
Out for a good time, young people gathering to have a night out in the company of others. Presumably of like mind. Some arriving singly, others as couples, and others again in the comfort of a group of friends. Any reason for a party, a get-together, a celebratory occasion will generally do.
But when it's in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, why then all the more reason to chuff a few more beers than usual.
Alcoholic beverages loosen inhibitions, make people feel more comfortable in the presence of others, so they become more social, more capable of saying those clever, glib things that are so amusing and entertaining. A general feeling of well-being results, and everyone befriends everyone else.
No one seems to be outrageously drunk, and in the wee hours of the morning people begin to depart the scene, heading for home.
Because it's a rural area, there are some who toddle home on their own two feet, while others drive. One might imagine that more caution than usual might be observed if the drivers are aware that some of those with whom they've shared conversations, a few laughs, and they don't recall how many beers, would be walking along the road.
That's not what happened in Constance Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning. When Erin Vance, a young mother of twin five-year-old boys, who lived temporarily with her parents in Dunrobin was walking alongside the road, having left the place where they were all celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the traditional manner.
Neither she nor her boyfriend might have felt they were in any imminent danger.
But they were, and it became quite clear just how much danger when 26-year-old Erin Vance was hit and killed by Jeremy Rees, 23, despite having been pushed out of the way by her boyfriend Justin Hammond. "I didn't push her far enough", Justin Hammond later stated. Killed outright by the impact of the car, she is now mourned by those who knew her; family and friends.
"The driver was known to the pedestrians that were walking along. They were friends and were drinking at the same establishment", explained Det.Craig Bowman. The driver of the vehicle obviously panicked when he struck the young woman, for he fled the scene of the accident, leaving his crumpled car which had knocked over two trees, on someone's front lawn.
A fireman with the Ottawa fire department whose home was nearby rushed out of his house at the sound of the impact, to attempt assistance. But there were no vital signs. Which didn't stop him from performing CPR, and using a defibrillator until the arrival of paramedics. She was beyond revival.
Her epitaph will read: "She loved her boys". Certainly she died too young. And most certainly her two boys will, throughout their lives, miss the mother they will remember until they themselves leave this mortal coil.
Jeremy Rees has been charged with impaired driving causing death, criminal negligence causing death and failing to remain at the scene.
Without doubt something died there, too.
But when it's in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, why then all the more reason to chuff a few more beers than usual.
Alcoholic beverages loosen inhibitions, make people feel more comfortable in the presence of others, so they become more social, more capable of saying those clever, glib things that are so amusing and entertaining. A general feeling of well-being results, and everyone befriends everyone else.
No one seems to be outrageously drunk, and in the wee hours of the morning people begin to depart the scene, heading for home.
Because it's a rural area, there are some who toddle home on their own two feet, while others drive. One might imagine that more caution than usual might be observed if the drivers are aware that some of those with whom they've shared conversations, a few laughs, and they don't recall how many beers, would be walking along the road.
That's not what happened in Constance Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning. When Erin Vance, a young mother of twin five-year-old boys, who lived temporarily with her parents in Dunrobin was walking alongside the road, having left the place where they were all celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the traditional manner.
Neither she nor her boyfriend might have felt they were in any imminent danger.
But they were, and it became quite clear just how much danger when 26-year-old Erin Vance was hit and killed by Jeremy Rees, 23, despite having been pushed out of the way by her boyfriend Justin Hammond. "I didn't push her far enough", Justin Hammond later stated. Killed outright by the impact of the car, she is now mourned by those who knew her; family and friends.
"The driver was known to the pedestrians that were walking along. They were friends and were drinking at the same establishment", explained Det.Craig Bowman. The driver of the vehicle obviously panicked when he struck the young woman, for he fled the scene of the accident, leaving his crumpled car which had knocked over two trees, on someone's front lawn.
A fireman with the Ottawa fire department whose home was nearby rushed out of his house at the sound of the impact, to attempt assistance. But there were no vital signs. Which didn't stop him from performing CPR, and using a defibrillator until the arrival of paramedics. She was beyond revival.
Her epitaph will read: "She loved her boys". Certainly she died too young. And most certainly her two boys will, throughout their lives, miss the mother they will remember until they themselves leave this mortal coil.
Jeremy Rees has been charged with impaired driving causing death, criminal negligence causing death and failing to remain at the scene.
Without doubt something died there, too.
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