When Justin van Damme heard a bus full of seniors crashed on a Trans-Canada Highway intersection near Carberry, Man., last week it was like he was transported back in time.
He was just 12 years old when his mother sat him and his sister down to break the news — their grandparents had died in a car crash at an uncontrolled Highway 1 intersection.
“It was very surreal,” van Damme said. “You don’t expect to lose them both at once.”
The Winnipeg musician’s grandparents, Percy and Noreen Shepherd, were out for an afternoon drive that day in 1999, heading south toward Highway 1.
The couple crossed the westbound lanes
