Hi and thanks for taking the time to stop by. Even though this is not a breaking story when I cam across this article I thought as one of those stranger than fiction type of stories that really do happen.
Came across a story about a Michigan woman who has graduated from college in Indiana. Though graduating is not anything new or strange, what is strange is that in 2006 she had been declared dead when four Taylor University students and a staff member were killed when a semi trailer crashed into the van they were in on April 26, 2006,Whitney E. Cerak was misidentified by the County Coroner at that time.
Five weeks after the crash, and after her family had already held a funeral for her, the family of another student realized the hospitalized young woman they thought was their daughter, Laura Van Ryn of Caledonia, MI., was actually Cerak. Not sure why it took that long to find out exactly who she was.
What we do know about the crash is that the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel, but as usually happens he was still alive. He plead guilty to reckless homicide and criminal recklessness and was given an eight-year prison sentence with four years suspended. I will never understand how these drivers who are responsible for the death of innocent lives because of their carelessness end up with so small of a sentence.
Needless to say, I am glad that Whitney's story is still ongoing. And it seems she is going to do something good with her life as she plans to travel to Kenya in July and remain there through February. So for some there is a happy ending.
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