Victim in stolen car crash dies

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WINNIPEG — The driver of a car struck by a stolen Hummer allegedly driving high speed through a stop sign yesterday afternoon has died.

Winnipeg police spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen said today that 47-year-old Zdzislaw Andrzejczak died less than 40 minutes after being rushed to hospital after the collision at 3 p.m.

“He had no chance,” Jolant,  Andrzejczak’s wife of 24 years, said Saturday, her eyes rimmed with tears.

Jolant said she spoke to her husband, who was trained as an auto mechanic, for the last time just an hour before the collision.

“He planned to pick up some parts for the car. He was coming home to take the dog out,” she said. “The police called about an accident and they wanted me to come to the hospital.

“(When I arrived) they said he passed away."

Jolant said both she and her 23-year-old son, Kamil, are taking the sudden death hard.

Michalyshen said police are still looking for the occupants of the Hummer who fled the scene, described by witnesses as several teenage boys.

Police said the car was driving northbound on Andrews Street at Alfred Avenue when the Hummer, driving west on Alfred, collided with it.

Michalyshen said shortly before the collision witnesses were using cell phones to tell police about "a vehicle driving erratically.

"There was no pursuit. The vehicle was observed travelling at a high rate of speed, but there was no pursuit."

Anyone with any information is asked to call police at 986-6271 or CrimeStoppers at 786-TIPS (8477).