A strong survivor

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Sophie Side

Saturday, 7 October 2017 06:00

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Saturday, 7 October 2017 06:00

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Catherine Larochelle has also survived the terrible accident of cave-ins. The woman of Saint-Bernard claims to have drawn a line a long time on this sad page of its history.

“For me, it is in the past, it. Life goes on, that’s all, ” said the lady of 78 years, met on the ground of his residence.

To watch it, no one can doubt that Ms. Larochelle has been close to death, the day of thanksgiving of 1997.

The arrival of the Journal, the seventy-year-old was pulling a wheelbarrow, and preparing to plant a tree and flowers, before washing his car.

“The specialist didn’t think that I remarcherais “, said Ms. Larochelle, who was training with Jacques Labrecque the couple only to be pulled out alive of the accident.

The man, who had suffered a head injury, died eight years ago.

“Dead happy “

For all these years, Ms. Larochelle contends that the occupants of the coach with whom she had died happy.

“It happened so fast, they had no knowledge that they are gone. They have never suffered, because they were unconscious, ” she said. This is the truth : I was in the bus and if they had suffered, I would have suffered me too, ” insists the one who has no memory of the moments preceding the accident.

Masses

Ms. Larochelle, one of only two survivors still alive, intends to be present at the masses commemorative set in Saint-Bernard and Landslides, tomorrow and 15 October.