Lorna Ross didn't want to leave her family behind after spending five days with them in The Pas. But as they said goodbye, she told her parents she felt she wasn't coming back home again. Just hours later, Ross died after being injured in a head-on highway collision.
The 42-year-old was travelling home to Winnipeg in a minivan Monday afternoon on Highway 6, her wheelchair strapped to the front part of the vehicle. RCMP believe an SUV going in the opposite direction crossed the centre line into the minivan's path. The vehicles crashed head-on near the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
Ross was rushed to a nursing station in Grand Rapids, but she later died. She leaves behind twin sisters, a brother and her parents. 3 dead in related crashes on highway near Grand Rapids, Man.
"She's gone, you're not gonna see her again," her father, Lorne Ross, said. "It's very difficult to think about that." "We have to live on with the memories that she was a very, very happy person .
.. she always had a big laugh.
" Lorne Ross said her daughter lived with spastic cerebral palsy after being born with an oxygen deficiency. She was the third of four quadruplets and the family's youngest living daughter. Lorna Ross was from Mosakahiken Cree Nation.
After living in The Pas with her family she moved to Winnipeg, her father said, looking for a more accessible city to live as a wheelchair user, especially during the winter months. She had an apartment, cared for two cats and worked for St. Amant.
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