Another accident in the Indo Community
ridenrain @ Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:55 pm
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Family wants answers as wedding becomes funeral
'No indication' of anything but tragic accident
Glenda Luymes, The Province
Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Two weeks before she was to be married, a young Surrey woman has died in what appears to be a tragic accident.
Sukhvir Kaur Grewal, 19, was in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by her fiancé, Jujar Singh Khunkhun, when she mysteriously fell from the vehicle.
"I don't know why," the young woman's father, Balbir Grewal, said yesterday. "We are hoping for answers."
Police said the accident happened Monday at 1:17 a.m. at the corner of 64th Avenue and 124th Street in Surrey.
Emergency crews arrived to find Grewal suffering from serious injuries. She was rushed to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, where she died.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Roger Morrow said police are investigating the young woman's death, but they have "no indication of it being anything other than a tragic accident."
"From what I understand, there are rumours and innuendo swirling around in the South Asian community, but obviously I cannot comment on that," Morrow added.
Sukhvir Grewal's uncle, Satnam Gill, said the young woman and her fiancé had spent Sunday doing wedding planning and shopping with their parents.
They were driving from Grewal's home in Abbotsford to Khunkhun's home in Surrey when the accident happened.
"She was playing with the door handle. She had it in her hand, and it seems like she accidentally opened it. She just fell," Gill said. "She hit her head."
Police are investigating the cause of the accident. It appears Grewal was not wearing a seatbelt.
"Everything was arranged for a wedding, and now there's going to be a funeral," said Gill.
Grewal met her fiancé when they attended the same high school in Abbotsford. They were to be married Oct. 20.
"They were both happy," said her father. "She was a good daughter. She loved everybody."
He said it was "too hard" to talk about his daughter, who has two younger brothers.
Gill said Grewal taught him to ski at Mount Seymour last winter.
"She was helping me to get up. It was my first time out there. She was a great person. This is really, really hard for her family," he said.
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'No indication' of anything but tragic accident
Glenda Luymes, The Province
Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Two weeks before she was to be married, a young Surrey woman has died in what appears to be a tragic accident.
Sukhvir Kaur Grewal, 19, was in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by her fiancé, Jujar Singh Khunkhun, when she mysteriously fell from the vehicle.
"I don't know why," the young woman's father, Balbir Grewal, said yesterday. "We are hoping for answers."
Police said the accident happened Monday at 1:17 a.m. at the corner of 64th Avenue and 124th Street in Surrey.
Emergency crews arrived to find Grewal suffering from serious injuries. She was rushed to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, where she died.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Roger Morrow said police are investigating the young woman's death, but they have "no indication of it being anything other than a tragic accident."
"From what I understand, there are rumours and innuendo swirling around in the South Asian community, but obviously I cannot comment on that," Morrow added.
Sukhvir Grewal's uncle, Satnam Gill, said the young woman and her fiancé had spent Sunday doing wedding planning and shopping with their parents.
They were driving from Grewal's home in Abbotsford to Khunkhun's home in Surrey when the accident happened.
"She was playing with the door handle. She had it in her hand, and it seems like she accidentally opened it. She just fell," Gill said. "She hit her head."
Police are investigating the cause of the accident. It appears Grewal was not wearing a seatbelt.
"Everything was arranged for a wedding, and now there's going to be a funeral," said Gill.
Grewal met her fiancé when they attended the same high school in Abbotsford. They were to be married Oct. 20.
"They were both happy," said her father. "She was a good daughter. She loved everybody."
He said it was "too hard" to talk about his daughter, who has two younger brothers.
Gill said Grewal taught him to ski at Mount Seymour last winter.
"She was helping me to get up. It was my first time out there. She was a great person. This is really, really hard for her family," he said.
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