The family of paralyzed Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is hoping their run of bad luck ends with three vehicle accidents. Straschnitzki's 16-year-old brother, Jett, was driving a car that was hit over the weekend in Airdrie, Alta.
Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki, who was paralyzed following a bus crash that killed 16 people, is wheeled by his father Tom as his mother Michelle, centre, walks beside in Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, April 25, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntoshAIRDRIE, Alta. -- The family of paralyzed Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is hoping their run of bad luck ends with three vehicle accidents.
"He had four people he was driving home because he was the designated driver," he said. The other driver "came out of the corner and just about T-boned him but she corrected and just sideswiped him.Ryan Straschnitzki, 19, was one of 13 junior hockey players injured when the team's bus collided with a semi truck in rural Saskatchewan last April. Sixteen people on the bus were killed.
The family had another scare last December when Ryan Straschnitzki was riding in a handi-bus on his way home from a physiotherapy appointment and the vehicle was rear-ended by a truck. The force of the crash was so jarring it threw him from his wheelchair to the floor and triggered flashbacks of the bus accident.
"Tom told me the next day and my heart just dropped into my feet and I thought, oh my God -- I just don't know how many more times I can handle getting calls like this," she said."I just want things to go back to normal for a bit."
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