Wetaskiwin mourns 2 high school students killed in collision: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
Global News
Wetaskiwin Composite High School Grade 12 students Weston Pitcher and Bradyn Heinz were killed late Friday in a rural collision that also injured three of their friends.
The community of Wetaskiwin is in mourning.
“It doesn’t feel real,” Alexis Kalymchuk said Sunday, fighting tears while speaking about the deaths of her two friends in central Alberta.
Wetaskiwin Composite High School Grade 12 students Weston Pitcher and Bradyn Heinz were killed late Friday when the vehicle they were in lost control and rolled off the highway around 11 p.m.
Three other teens were injured in the single-vehicle crash north of Wetaskiwin, on Highway 814 and Township Road 475 near Millet.
STARS Air Ambulance took them to an Edmonton hospital in serious but stable condition.
Wetaskiwin Regional Public Schools supt. Peter Barron told Global News all five students were in Grade 12 at the high school.
Kalymchuk said she was good friends with all the boys in the vehicle: “I was pretty much the only girl in the group, and I just felt so included, and it was just so nice.”
They were part of a large friend group that Kalymchuk said did all the normal things teenagers do: gathered at each other’s homes, had campfires and went on trips to Edmonton.