What a terribly sad story. I'm sure we all have high hopes for Stephanie's recovery. 

You don't often think about the dangers camera people face while out on shoots. Most of them are so focused on getting the shot, they sometimes forget about how perilous the job can sometimes be. Another who suffered life changing injuries was the great Bill Atanasoff, a terrific camera guy who worked for City TV. 

He was hit by a drunk driver while shooting a story in 2010, and suffered life altering injuries that left him bed-ridden, a quadriplegic and blind. He was in hospital for four years. His life was forever changed by that tragedy and it ended his career and destroyed the lives of those around him.

So while the Kitchener accident was a terrible tragedy, let's hope it's also the very last one we ever have to report here. 

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What a terribly sad story. I'm sure we all have high hopes for Stephanie's recovery. 

You don't often think about the dangers camera people face while out on shoots. Most of them are so focused on getting the shot, they sometimes forget about how perilous the job can sometimes be. Another who suffered life changing injuries was the great Bill Atanasoff, a terrific camera guy who worked for City TV. 

He was hit by a drunk driver while shooting a story in 2010, and suffered life altering injuries that left him bed-ridden, a quadriplegic and blind. He was in hospital for four years. His life was forever changed by that tragedy and it ended his career and destroyed the lives of those around him.

So while the Kitchener accident was a terrible tragedy, let's hope it's also the very last one we ever have to report here. 

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My sympathies to the young lady and loved ones. It goes without saying that first responders and tow truck operators face the prospect at every crash scene of being injured or worse. I just retired from the towing industry after spending 23 years between part and full time of putting my self in precarious situations to make a dollar. By the grace of the Good Lord ,I was never seriuosly hurt, I did have a black Dodge Ram brush me with the passenger mirror once, it left a bruise,   but I knew guys that were hurt bad.  There is on  average, a tow truck driver killed in  North America every week. Please, slow down  and move over, after all, it is the law ! 

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