Devastating car accident; please drive carefully

This story has just come in about a car accident today where the driver, a woman, was driving five children to or from a birthday party. She and three children are killed, when the car went off the road for some unknown reason, and into a deep dugout, and the two other children are in a coma. This is a tiny town in Canada (even smaller than the upstate New York one I grew up in) and I can imagine their devastation. Please pray for these people. And please promote safer driving in your own family. I mean, these little kids were just going to a children's birthday party, for goodness sakes. I have pissed off jerks tailgating and passing me (twice in the past week) and I drive the speed limit or even a few miles per hour over. Everyone needs to slow down and chill out. This poor woman was probably distracted for just a second and that's all that's needed. Kudos to the passersby who went into the dugout to try to rescue.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKPu8FwZ3JdZFysevFOO1xtgWwtQ

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MELFORT, Sask. — A tiny town in central Saskatchewan has been devastated by a single-vehicle crash Thursday that claimed the lives of a woman and three little girls and has left two other girls in a coma.
The vehicle the woman was driving veered off a secondary highway near Melfort, Sask., and flipped over into a water-filled dugout.
Paul Boyer, wife of the mayor of St. Brieux, Sask., said the group had been travelling either to or from a children's birthday party.
Two of the children belonged to the woman driving; the other three were from different families in the small community, which has a population of about 500.
All of the children were seven or eight years old.