'HE LIVED FOR THEM': Man loses wife, son in Mississauga crash
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Whenever he wakes up, Sanket Dogra will be given the news no husband and dad should ever have to receive.
There is no sugar coating this.
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The 33-year-old’s wife, Khushboo, 31, and his soon to be three-year-old son, Prakrit, are dead — killed in a massive car crash early Thursday at the corner of Burnhamthorpe and Mavis Rds. in Mississauga.
The only positive coming out of this horrifying story is it’s believed Sanket will survive the crash, for which Peel Regional Police are considering serious charges against an 18-year-old man who was driving a second car.
Sanket was given a very slim chance of making it through this. However, as of deadline, it seemed there was a ray of hope.
“He is in stable condition now after a major surgery at Sunnybrook to repair his artery, which was severed in the crash thanks to a broken rib,” his childhood pal Kamal Bains said. “They had to do heart surgery and it looks like he got through it.”
Now they are waiting for him to regain consciousness. But that’s something Bains and other childhood buddies at his bedside — Manpreet Singh, Tejvir Dhugga and Tajinder Singh — are also worried about.
“Who is going to tell him that he lost his wife and his son?” said Dhugga.
“How is he going to want to live after learning that?” Manpreet Singh added.
His pals say the “amazing” doctors and nurses at Sunnybrook will do their part and they will do theirs.
“We will be there for him,” said Tajinder Singh. “He’s alone now, but he won’t be alone.”
They have been talking to him and feel that he can hear them. They want him to know he is in their prayers. He is in a lot of people’s prayers.
“I was deeply saddened to hear about the tragic loss of the lives of a young mother and her child in a vehicle collision at Burnhamthorpe and Mavis Road,” a shaken Mayor Bonnie Crombie said. “My thoughts and prayers remain with the family.”
In Canada, Sanket’s remaining family are his childhood chums. They are all he has left.
They say Sanket’s wife and son were everything to him.
“He came here three years ago (from India) wanting to improve his life,” said Dhugga. “He brought his wife and son here one year ago. He wanted to give them everything. He lived for them.”
He “just bought that car (Nissan Altima) because he thought it would make things safer for his family.”
It’s difficult to imagine being broad-sided by a Hyundai Elantra. The driver, who suffered a broken hip and pelvis, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of impairment, but until a “blood warrant” comes back with results, charges have yet to be laid. Witnesses told police it was travelling at a high rate of speed and at one point was believed to have been airborne.
Standing in the rain outside Sunnybrook, the four friends said they couldn’t think of a day in their lives that was sadder.
In growing up in the Punjab province city of Phagwara, Bains said they would dream of big things ahead: “We all came to Canada for the dream.”
They never thought it would end up being a nightmare.
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