Lone survivor in deadly collision in western Manitoba phoned mom for help from crash wreckage

Hanna Yurkiw left her home near Dauphin, Man., after 9 p.m. on March 29 to go for a drive with friends. Around two hours later she phoned her mom, trapped in a car that was flattened beneath the tires of a semitrailer on a rural highway following a horrific collision.

The 15-year-old was a passenger in the car with four other teenagers. She’s the only one who survived. 

“She somehow had her phone and she was calling and when I talked to her she said: “Mommy, I need you. Please come and get me,” Tanya Yurkiw, Hanna’s mom, said during a phone call from Children’s Hospital in