In a story ripped from daytime soap operas , it seems that a Michigan coroner's misstep caused a one family to erroneously grieve the loss of their daughter and another to mistakenly celebrate that theirs had survived a horrible accident:
Authorities in Indiana were trying to unravel the heartbreaking mix-up on Wednesday, five weeks after five people — including four students from Taylor University, a small evangelical Christian college in Upland, Ind. — were killed in a crash on Interstate Highway 69, near Marion.
Confusion apparently began in the hectic moments after the deadly April 26 crash involving a semi-tractor trailer loaded with baking flour and the Taylor University van, returning from nearby Ft. Wayne. Grant County (Indiana) Coroner Ron Mowery, whose office handled the death investigations, apologized during a news conference Wednesday for the mix-up.
He described an accident scene where purses and wallets were strewn about and that acquaintances of the students had identified the survivor taken to a Ft. Wayne hospital as [Laura] VanRyn. He said no scientific testing was conducted to verify the identifications.
Call me an optimist, but I can take some modicum of happiness from three aspects of this bizarre story, none of which have anything to do with Whitney Cerak's second chance at life:
- that the mistaken identity story was first revealed on a *blog* run by the real dead girl's family…I mean, what was the subject heading of that post - "Remember how lucky we were that Laura was alive? Uh, not so much"?
- that the more attractive girl lived (see photos in the linked story…similar appearance my ass!). How's that for proof of a higher power? God loves hot chicks!
- perhaps now people will finally recognize the dangers of baking flour and its associated means of transportation. We need to stop this white menace before it takes any more of our youngest and brightest!
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