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Kamloops rallying together for couple hit by car on Coquihalla

Kamloops rallying together for couple hit by car on Coquihalla | iNFOnews.ca
Anna Grandia, right, and her husband Matt are pictured with their two children in this contributed photo. Contributed

KAMLOOPS – The people of Kamloops are coming together to help support a local family after a mother and father were struck by a vehicle on the Coquihalla this weekend.

A GoFundMe campaign organized by a family friend says Matt and Anna Grandia were with their two children on the way to Vancouver when they saw an accident ahead of them.

Matt and Anna got out of their vehicle and went to assist, but another car lost control and struck them.

"Both Matt and Anna were taken to hospital in New Westminster in critical condition," family friend Jenell Kornelson writes. "The kids are both okay."

Calls for comment were defered to the family's Summit Drive pastor, Dave Fields. He expects to update the media on the couple's condition tomorrow, Feb. 8.

According to posts on social media, Anna is an instructor at a dance studio in the Brock neighbourhood.

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Ashley Legassic

Ashley was born and raised in B.C., and recently moved to Kamloops from Vancouver. She pursued her diploma in journalism at Langara College and graduated in 2015. She got her start as an overnight writer for the Morning News on Global B.C. After spending a year there, she decided to follow her passion and joined iNFOnews.ca as a reporter covering court, cops and crime in Kamloops. If you have a story you think people should know about, email her at alegassic@infonews.ca.


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