This is fucking sad ....

http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20060309-002/page.asp






Any traffic accident that takes a life is a tragedy.

But there’s something especially cruel about the incident that took place on the Gardiner Expressway near Kipling around 8pm Wednesday night.

It began when a father of two saw another motorist who’d been in an accident and stopped to help.

No sooner had the Good Samaritan left his car than a third vehicle sped out the darkness and crashed into his Toyota, as the helpless father of two stood and watched in disbelief.

Inside the car was his wife and two children, one seven, the other just five.

The trio was rushed to the nearest hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Centre. But the youngest child’s injuries were so severe he had to be transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children.

By the time paramedics reached the entrance, the little boy was dead.

The father’s other son suffered a broken femur and his wife’s injuries weren’t life threatening.

But it’s the way the accident happened that has even battle hardened traffic cops shaking their heads in astonished sorrow.

“He was trying to do good and that’s where the term Good Samaritan comes from, acting out of compassion to do the right thing, helping people,” laments Detective Paul Lobsinger of Traffic Services. “But this was just a very unfortunate series of events.”

The stunned dad bent down and kissed his young son at the scene, just before he was taken away on a stretcher. It was to be his final act of tenderness and the beginning of years of tears that may never end.

“What the rest of the family’s going through, I just cannot imagine,” confesses Lobsinger.

The tragedy is compounded by the fact that the distraught dad did everything right.

Both kids were strapped in with seatbelts and booster seats, but that didn’t change the terrible outcome.

Other Toronto motorists admit they would have thought twice about following the man’s example.

"You try to pull over if you can, but I mean you have to watch out for the other traffic as well," agrees Doug Power. "If there’s no room you have to keep going. But you can call the police and say there’s someone stranded."

A driver named Gina notes it’s just too dangerous to stop in that kind of traffic at that time of night. "I don’t pull over, no," she reveals. "There have just been too many tragedies in the last little while."

And sadly, now, there’s another one. The incident took place only a few kilometres away from where a rollover Monday night took the life of 17-year-old Ravi Madhai.

It’s still not clear if the driver of the Honda that hit the man’s car will be charged. The name of the family involved is being