Photograph of the victims.
Relatives of a Tamil family are seeking answers, after a sister and brother were killed and their mother critically injured in Toronto car crash last week.
Pateeran Puvanendran, 21, and Neluxsana Puvanendran, 23, were both killed after their car was hit by a dump truck at the junction of Markham Road and Elson Street on Wednesday October 12.
The siblings were pronounced dead at the scene. Their mother, 52-year-old Srirathy Shanmuganathan, was also in the vehicle, and remains in critical condition.
The driver of the dump truck remained at the scene, but no charges have been brought forward as of yet.
Speaking to CBC Toronto, Pateeran and Neluxsana’s uncle Suven Poopalasingam said the family were still searching for answers as to how the accident occurred.
“It’s not going to replace anything,” he said. “But we want some kind of a justice, to make sure it doesn’t happen to any other children.”
Pateerana, a Wilfrid Laurier University student died on his birthday. Neluxsana was student at George Brown College.
Poopalasingam told CBC Toronto that their mother was still in hospital. “When she wakes up, she’s going to definitely ask me: ‘Where are my kids?’”
“I have to tell her, ‘This is what happened,’ and I want to see if she can make it to the funeral. I’m just waiting for her to wake up. At the end, it doesn’t really matter who is right or who is wrong. What matters is what’s left.”
Const. Amy Boudreau, spokesperson for York Regional Police, said they "still need to speak with all witnesses that were present and gather all the information”
"We just want to make sure that we have all the details that we need."
Anyone with information regarding this deadly crash is asked to call the Major Collision Investigation Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7704, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).