Fatal collision renews calls for change to Parkland County intersection with deadly history
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Calls to change a notorious Parkland County intersection are being renewed after a fatal collision this week.
Jade Kwasnycia died in a Wednesday afternoon collision at Highway 16A and Range Road 20, an intersection 16 kilometres northwest of Spruce Grove, Alta. that has seen multiple vehicle fatalities.
The 22-year-old died after her sedan collided with a truck, according to a Thursday news release from Parkland RCMP.
Emergency services, including STARS Air Ambulance, attended the scene but were unable to save the woman.
The 61-year-old man driving the truck suffered only minor injuries.
"My wife was there as my daughter died," Bryan Kwasnycia said through tears as he recalled his wife, Michelle Kwasnycia, being the first family member to reach the scene.
She was with their daughter as she took her last breath inside an ambulance.
Kwasnycia said her daughter had her whole life ahead of her and was about to enter her fourth year of university for teaching.
"She worked in the summer with special needs children. She volunteered at the church across the road. Her and her boyfriend were making plans on engagement and marriage at the end of the school year."
The family is now adding their voice to a chorus calling on the province to take concrete action to ensure no other lives are cut short while driving through the intersection.
Kwasnycia, who has lived in the area for 40 years, said the intersection "has never been safe" and that locals have been calling for improvements for decades.
He, his wife and his uncle have each had previous collisions while going through the intersection.
Kwasnycia said it's dangerous due to the highway and range road not intersecting at right angles to each other, creating blind spots for drivers.
"We call it the devil's intersection or the death intersection," he said. "It's just the layout."
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