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On June 14 a group had left Vancouver’s Stanley Park with “Ride of a Lifetime” to cross Canada. They planned on raising $500,000 to fund research for Type 1 Diabetes. The trip should have ended in St. John’s Newfoundland by August 12.
Fifty-year-old Daniel Hurtubise from St.-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec had lived with diabetes for 35 years. He and his two children 16-year-old daughter, Sonia, and 19-year-old son, Alex had been journaling online about their cross country adventure.
CTV Winnipeg printed the last journal ending.
The sun is shining it’s a beautiful day. Each cyclist is looking at their odometer and cannot believe that we have covered 2,000 km since the launch in Vancouver. Tonight we have celebrated that special occasion around a good table at a very nice restaurant in Moosomin. Tomorrow we will enter in Manitoba. … We have received donations from people who heard our interview on the radio. Thanks and please keep on supporting our cause…
Along with a 45-year friend from Kelowna, BC the group was struck down Sunday afternoon just outside of Virden. Hurtubise was killed instantly as was his friend. The Hurtubise children were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The 27-year-old driver of the Honda Civic was not injured. It is not thought that alcohol was a factor in the crash.
Source: By Moments In Time http://timeinmoments.wordpress.com/
Posted June 30th, 2008 by Armen Hareyan
