Community rallies around family injured in Christmas Eve crash in Cape Breton
CTV
A Maritime community is stepping up to support a family of six who were injured in a Christmas Eve car crash.
Rikki Boneschansker, along with her husband Daniel and their four children ages three through nine, were in Cape Breton visiting from Halifax for the holidays.
The family was on the way to a Christmas Eve candlelight service in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., when their van collided with a Volkswagen Golf coming the other way on Highway 104.
"When I saw my daughter at the scene, she said she was driving and then she woke up,” said Cynthia Fougere, Rikki Boneschansker’s mother.
Fougere says her daughter has a long road to recovery.
"She's in surgery right now,” Fougere told CTV News on Friday afternoon.
“Probably a five-hour-plus surgery. They're doing an arm, a leg and her pelvis was shattered."
Fougere’s grandchildren were also injured in the crash.
