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Crash kills Bloodvein man
Tony Green will be missed. Antoine Green, 51, was killed in a head-on collision Monday as he was driving home to Bloodvein First Nation across a wilderness road with his wife and two grandchildren. A wake is being held Thursday in Winnipeg. His body is being returned home to Bloodvein Friday and a funeral is planned for Monday, said Green’s cousin, Yvonne Young from the First Nation 210 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The Ojibway community can only be reached by land in winter over an ice road. "Everyone knew him as Tony. He was friendly and cheerful and he had seven children and many grandchildren," Young said. Everyone knew Green because he was the community’s garbage truck driver and he never missed a pickup, Young said from the home of her brother, Bloodvein Chief Frank Young. The Greens and the Youngs are first cousins, Young said. Green was on an errand to pay his Autopac premiums on the family’s two vehicles in the nearest town, Riverton, on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg. It’s a vital service centre for half a dozen remote fly-in First Nations on the eastern shore. Authorities released a statement Wednesday on the fatality, saying one man had died and another was injured in a two-vehicle collision in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost on Monday. Gimli RCMP said Green was driving a GMC Jimmy with three passengers northbound on Provincial Road 234 about five kilometres north of Beaver Creek. The sport utility vehicle collided with a southbound Chevrolet Uplander following a logging truck at about 5 p.m. Young said the airbags in Green’s GMC failed and he suffered life-threatening chest and head injuries. His wife, Rosalie, had minor injuries to one arm. The two other passengers, the couple’s grandchildren, aged 9 and 11, were not physically hurt. Family members say the kids are traumatized by their grandfather’s death. Within minutes, other motorists stopped at the scene of the accident. There’s no cell service from the location, though, making emergency service almost impossible to get in a hurry, Young said. RCMP said Green was rushed to Arborg Hospital in critical condition before being transferred to Health Sciences Centre. He died six hours later. The driver of the Uplander, a 47-year-old man from Ontario, was treated and released from Gimli Hospital. Young said Green will be missed, especially at the First Nation’s school, where 200 children are enrolled from nursery school to Grade 9. Green dropped by every morning on his pickup rounds, often staying for a cup of coffee with staff or visiting his nine grandchildren at recess. RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Line Karpish said road conditions at the time were poor. "Because of the blowing snow, they were down to one lane there," Karpish said. "When (the vehicles collided), there was a lot of snow dust being kicked up by the logging truck so they didn’t see each other." Karpish said at this point of the investigation it appears no charges will be laid. alexandra.paul@freepress.mb.ca
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