Family mourns Ontario aunt who died ‘defenceless’ in 9-vehicle crash
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'She was kind of corralled. She was at a red light. There were cars all around her. She was literally defenceless. Had nowhere to go,' said Biljentina.
Christine Potes was out running errands for her nephew’s 10th birthday party on Aug. 10 around noon when she was killed in a horrific chain-reaction crash in Oshawa, Ont.
“The last communication I have in my phone with her was like, ‘Is this fruit tray OK?’ She was picking things up for the party,” recalled her younger sister Katrina Potes.
“I just remember shortly after texting her, getting a call from Matty, a missed call from him, and I gave him a call back, and I just could hear that something was so wrong,” she said.
Potes’ longtime partner Matty Biljentina was asleep when police came knocking on the door of the couple’s Oshawa home.
“They told me what happened and I just kind of lost it … I said, what hospital? And they said, she’s not at the hospital. She died on impact,” he said.
According to Durham Regional Police, reports indicated a black Mercedes sedan was travelling southbound on Ritson Road South “at a high rate of speed.”
As the Mercedes entered the curb lane it struck a white Nissan being operated by Potes.
“The force of the initial impact caused the driver of the Nissan to lose control, striking a Chevy Orlando, which then caught on fire. The white Nissan then struck a Honda and Dodge Caravan, which also caught fire.”
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