Saskatoon

Langham, Sask. crowdfunds for mother of crash victims

A GoFundMe page has popped up, collecting donations for the mourning mother of two boys killed in a collision on Highway 16, just outside of Langham, Sask.

A GoFundMe page has collected more than $4,000 in 24 hours

A semi truck is jack-knifed on a snowy highway with yellow jacket-clad worked surrounding a bent section.
It took first responders three hours to pull victims and survivors from Major's truck. (Victoria Dinh/CBC)

Community support is flooding towards a mourning mother who lost two of her sons earlier this week in a fatal collision just outside of Langham, Sask., approximately 30 kilometres north-west of Saskatoon.

The two children, a four-year-old boy and a nine-year-old boy, died in a crash involving a passenger truck and a semi-tractor trailer on Highway 16, roughly 50 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.

A GoFundMe campaign has since been started to collect donations for the family's tragic loss.

"I'm just trying to help [her] and her family with costs of funeral arrangements for the two boys," D'arcy Michele Nemanishin, creator of the GoFundMe page, wrote to CBC. "[I'm] also hoping to raise some money to help while she's off work."

Nemanishin said the money will also be used to help the other young boys injured in the crash.

With a goal of raising $3,000, the crowdfunding campaign has reached more than $4,000 in the past 24 hours.

"[The] community has been overwhelmingly supportive," said Nemanishin.

She said the town's bar, Shyster's Tavern, is also collecting donations for the family.

For a link to the fundraising account, click here.