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Heartless hit-and-run Teen with brittle bone disease suffers multiple injuries after being thrown from his wheelchair
by Kevin Diakiw THE CAR smashed into his motorized
wheelchair, throwing his frail body more than three metres, breaking both his legs and a shoulder. The vehicle then swerved, picked up speed, and took off. Jonathan Forero, 19, suffered multiple injuries in the collision, which occurred Tuesday night in North Surrey. Forero has endured brittle bone disease all his life, a genetic disorder that makes his bones extremely fragile and susceptible to breakage. He has broken bones just by walking, or getting hit by an object, “but never by a car,”
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Jonathan Forero, 19, was badly injured in a hit-and-run crash Tuesday in North Surrey. The teen – whose bones break easily due to a medical condition – suffered two broken legs and a broken shoulder in the collision. Police are looking for the vehicle involved.
he said in an interview with The Leader Wednesday from Surrey Memorial Hospital, where it’s expected he will remain for a couple of weeks. Forero’s latest injuries bring the total number of broken bones he’s suffered in his life to 33. Because of his medical condition, he’s had to rely on an electric wheelchair for some time. The collision occurred on Nov. 5, just before 6 p.m., when he and his girlfriend were travelling from Surrey Central SkyTrain Station on their way to her house. They were heading down 95A Avenue near 133 Street. Forero had to use the road, as there wasn’t a sidewalk.
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Awash in remembrance Veteran Reginald Vose looks back at a 27-year navy career that included the Second World War and Korea by Boaz Joseph REGINALD WILLIAM VOSE was monitoring the radar screen aboard River Class Frigate HMCS Port Colborne in the North Atlantic in 1944 when he spotted something. He was part of a six-vessel
hunter-killer group, with the line of ships 2,000 yards apart, searching for German U-boats. A blip showed a large object that made for a good target. As the other ships on the line were called in, Port Colborne fired her hedgehogs – contact-fuse mortar bombs that were more
effective over a wide area than depth charges. The explosion was tremendous, practically lifting the frigate out of the water. Light bulbs blew out and much of the ships internal equipment was damaged.
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Reginald Vose shows a photo of the first Canadian-schooled class of navy radar plotters, shortly after the Second World War. (He’s in the centre).
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