KELOWNA, B.C. — A team of specialists has been sent to an elementary school in Kelowna, B.C, to help students and staff deal with the death of a teacher.
Central Okanagan School District Superintendent Kevin Kaardal confirms 31-year-old Tayah Lloyd died Saturday morning when a vehicle driven by her husband was hit head-on by a pickup truck that had crossed Highway 1, east of Vancouver.
Police say the drivers of both vehicles were seriously injured but survived.
Kardaal says Lloyd taught Kindergarten at Anne McClymont Elementary.
Eyrley Webber, the mother of one of Lloyd’s students, says Lloyd was married in December and had shared with her students that she was expecting her first child.
Webber says Lloyd loved teaching.
Kardaal calls the loss devastating and says grief counsellors will try to help the students deal with the death.
Webber's son made a flower for his teacher, Webber says, and left it on her desk on Monday.
"He just said, 'You know, I was really sad and I cried but then I knew that she got to be an angel and I feel really lucky that she gets to watch over me like my grandpa,'” Webber says, quoting her son.
