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Girl, 15, Dies Four Years After Minivan Crashed In Alberta School

The Canadian Press, 02 Sep, 2016 02:10 PM
    ST. PAUL, Alta. — A girl who was injured four years ago when a minivan plowed into a rural Alberta school, killing one student, has also died.
     
    An obituary says 15-year-old Maddie Guitard died on Wednesday surrounded by family at her home in St. Paul, east of Edmonton.
     
    It was October 2012 when the van crashed through a large window and brick wall into a lower-level Grade 6 classroom at Racette Junior High School.
     
    Megan Wolitski, who was 11, was killed, and Maddie and another girl were injured.
     
    Court heard that Maddie received a major brain injury and was left in a vegetative state.
     
    The driver, Richard Benson, had had a seizure during the crash and later admitted that he had a medical condition that should have kept him from driving.

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