Brampton dad speaks out after daughter killed by allegedly impaired driver
CBC
The father of a teenage girl, who died after a crash allegedly caused by an impaired driver, says he feels lost without her.
"She was the light of my life," Rodney Rousell said through tears on CBC Radio's Metro Morning Thursday.
Maddy Rousell, 15, was walking with a friend on the way to her father's birthday last Friday when an allegedly impaired driver struck another vehicle that then spun onto the sidewalk, striking and killing her.
The 36-year-old Mississauga man who Peel Regional Police say caused the crash has been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, refusing to give a breath sample and making an unsafe turn.
Rousell said the crash has left his family reeling.
"Everyone knows drinking and driving is wrong and it kills," he said.
"I just don't understand why my baby is gone."
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Rousell says he was expecting his daughter and her friend to join him for a cake at about 8:30 p.m. that night. But when he didn't get a response to his texts, he started calling Maddy — but those calls went to her voicemail, he said.
"That's just not like her. She always used to get back to me within minutes. I knew something was wrong."
The crash happened a short distance away, near McLaughlin Road North and Horwood Drive, according to police.
Moments later, Rousell said, Maddy's friend's mother called to say his daughter had been taken to hospital.
Before he could get into his car to rush to the hospital, police were outside the family's house to tell them what had happened.
"We're shocked," he said. "We're still in disbelief."
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