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Hit-and-run victim mourns her unborn son Editor recalls ‘Neither of being first us got to on scene hold him’ HANNA PETERSEN
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Brenda Palmieri is still in the intensive care unit at Vancouver General Hospital after being injured in a hitand-run accident on Prince George’s Hart Highway in mid-December. She can’t walk as she has a fracture in her hip as well as an open wound on her leg that will need skin grafts. “Hopefully in the near future, I can start practicing getting up and walking and taking a few steps and what not,” said Palmieri, during a phone interview from her hospital bed in Vancouver. The 37-year-old expectant mother was struck and left lying on Highway 97 at Noranda Road on Friday, Dec. 16 at around 7 p.m. Her unborn son did not survive. The driver, however, fled the scene but was eventually located by Prince George RCMP on Dec. 22. Palmieri lived at a house on the Hart Highway with her husband Wade, but that night she was on her way to stay at her father-in-law’s house. Her father-in-law was sick and had just
It’s a miracle I didn’t run her over. The highway was black and Brenda Palmieri’s seriously injured body was lying on a blind curve on Highway 97 at just before 7 p.m. on Dec. 16. I saw her at the very last moment and swerved, barely missing her. Fortunately, no one was in the left lane heading south on the Hart Highway into Prince George. I came to a stop about 50 metres away from Palmieri, in the pullout on Noranda Road West. My wife Ronda was already calling 9-1-1 on her cell as she jumped out of our F-150 truck. As I ran towards Palmieri, another driver had already stopped between my vehicle and Palmieri. That female driver and I began frantically waving at a semi-truck coming towards Palmieri. Thankfully, it was towing an empty flatbed trailer and was able to move into the left lane but came dangerously close to sideswiping one vehicle and rearending someone in the left lane who had slammed on their brakes.
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she suddenly stopped responding to his text messages and wasn’t aware she was in an accident until he was contacted by a hospital social worker. “By the time they got a hold of my husband and he got to the hospital our son had already passed so, unfortunately, neither one of us got to hold him or see him,” explained Palmieri.
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been released from hospital, so Wade was staying there to look after him. She left her house at about 6:30 p.m. went to the gas station across the street to buy some gum and called a cab. “I was on the sidewalk waiting for my cab and that is the last thing I remember. Next thing I remember is waking up five days later in the ICU in Vancouver.” She said Wade was wondering why
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