The parents of young Winnipeg woman who was killed in a two-vehicle collision are hopeful a new four-way stop at the intersection where she died will help save lives.
Jordyn Reimer, 24, was hit by a truck while she was travelling on Kildare Avenue in the Transcona neighbourhood in the early morning hours of May 1, 2022. The driver who hit her blew through a stop sign on Bond Street.
Earlier this week, city crews installed a four-way stop with signs at the intersection of Kildare Avenue West and Bond Street.
Karen and Doug Reimer, Jordyn’s parents, were at the intersection on Friday, just a few days before the second anniversary of her death.
“We’re very pleased that the city … acted on it,” Doug Reimer said. “We’re hoping that it can save another innocent person’s life someday, and nobody ever has to suffer and go through the pain and misery that our family and Jordan’s friends and everyone has had to endure.”
Tyler Scott Goodman pleaded guilty last year to impaired driving causing death, and to failing to stop at the scene of the crash that killed Jordyn.
The court heard Goodman consumed nine or 10 drinks the night before the crash. He was going more than 100 km/h at the time of the crash, when the speed limit in the residential area was 50 km/h.
Some people may say a four-way stop wouldn’t have stopped a drunk driver and that it will just slow down traffic in the area, but that that’s not the point, Karen Reimer said.
“It’s about giving [an] innocent victim like Jordyn an opportunity to stop and to look both ways,” she said. “If she’d have seen that truck … we feel confident she would never have entered the intersection. And that would have saved her life.”
Doug Reimer added that it would have just taken “one or two seconds” for Jordyn’s life to be saved.
“This time of the year is always going to be horrible for us,” he said. “It’s like ripping the scab open again.”