Crashes kill 13 in Ontario, including groom a day before his wedding

Among the 13 people killed on Ontario roads over the long weekend were a Good Samaritan who stopped to help at a crash.

A man was killed while trying to help a teenager who had crashed his car on a rural road near Kitchener. He died after a volunteer firefighter on the way to the accident also lost control and crashed.

Two people, were killed on Highway 402 when a minivan carrying eight family members rolled into a ditch. Police said only two passengers were wearing seatbelts.

An 80-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision the woman was struck by a man who is suspected of impaired driving. The man, who also died in the crash, was travelling the wrong way down the Highway

Two brothers were killed, after hitting a tree. Guy, was to be married Saturday while his brother Marcel, was his best man. On the same day, a camper trailer rolled over killing one person.

A mother was killed Friday on Highway 401 She had pulled her three-year-old daughter from her vehicle after it was struck by a transport truck. She was returning to the car when the vehicle was struck a second time.

Every year and every long weekend there are warnings about drinking and driving, about wearing your seat belts and after every long weekend we hear sad, sad stories about young people, the elderly and the saddest is the stories we hear about people that were ready to be married, or that a baby was involved. Sometimes crashes have nothing to do with alcohol, and those, if nothing was distracting the driver... (cell phone, other people in the car, the view)... those are accidents. What happened over this long weekend could have been avoided.

A Bride weeps for a love lost forever today, grandchildren cry for their Grandmother, and more people will thing twice before being a Good Samaritan
at the side of the road.