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Woman dies from garage-crash injuries

By: Gabrielle Giroday

Posted: 03/3/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

SUBMITTED PHOTO The aftermath of the crash on Roosevelt Place after a car lost control Saturday.

A dramatic crash this past weekend in Winnipeg involving an out-of-control car carrying two women has left a small northern community reeling. Police confirmed Monday afternoon 23-year-old Denise Anderson, injured in the crash, had died, while another 29-year-old woman struggled to survive in hospital.Friends and family of Anderson sat quietly in a downtown hotel Monday night, after rushing to the city from South Indian Lake to be near the mother of one as she languished at hospital.

Both women suffered serious injuries after a Honda in which they were travelling flew over a snowbank early Saturday morning and then nose-dived through the closed garage at 198 Roosevelt Place.

Police have said that before the crash the vehicle the women were in was speeding upwards of 100 kilometres per hour.

After a flurry of telephone calls alerting their families, relatives rushed to the hospital bedsides of the two women.

"They've lost their loved ones," said O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation Chief Chris Baker, a First Nation about 870 kilometres north of Winnipeg near South Indian Lake. "It's hard."

Baker said the approximately 1,200 members of his community where Anderson's parents live were devastated by news about the crash.

A relative told the Free Press Anderson had moved to Winnipeg as an adult, and she was raising a young son here.

They described a young woman with sparkling eyes and a huge smile who was the only female child in a batch of brothers.

Anderson's father and mother declined comment to the Free Press Monday evening and asked for privacy.

"We are very supportive of the families that have lost their loved ones," said Baker, who was in Winnipeg Monday and visited the hospital with Anderson's family.

As of Monday afternoon, police said the 29-year-old woman remained in hospital in critical condition.

On Monday, tributes to Anderson poured into a Facebook site dedicated to her memory.

"Your family loves you deeply, you will be always be remembered," said one tribute post.

gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 3, 2009 B2

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