Funeral held for woman killed by wrong-way driver
Posted October 13, 2012 3:27 pm.
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A funeral was held in Scarborough on Saturday for a 47-year-old woman killed by a driver going the wrong way in Oakville last weekend.
The coffin of Carol Grimmond was carried out of the Rosewood Church of the Nazarene behind an Ontario Corrections honour guard.
Grimmond was an employee of the Ministry of Correctional Services.
Her family says today’s service was a true reflection of who Carol was.
“She was the type of person who, when she walked into a room, she lit up the room with a smile and even though today is a very sorrowful day, the smiles that you see today are a reflection of Carol’s personality,” Robert James, a relative of Grimmond, told CityNews.
Grimmond, who lived in Windsor, was the passenger in a car hit head-on by another car on Highway 407 near Trafalgar Road on Oct. 6.
She was taken to a Mississauga hospital, where she died.
Grimmond’s twin brother, who was driving his sister, had only minor injuries.
The other driver, a 55-year-old Oakville woman named Mary Sampson, was not hurt, and police arrested her at the scene.
She appeared in court on Thursday on a number of charges including impaired driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death. She was released on $10,000 bail.
