Article: Tales of heroism in fatal crash

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By Jen Skerritt and Kevin Rollason

Strangers pulled a young girl from a burning vehicle on Friday night and then worked valiantly but, ultimately, in vain to free her parents from the fiery wreckage.

Headingley residents Wayne Adair, 41 and Serena Adair, 37, burned to death in the front seat of their pulverized Cadillac SUV, struck minutes earlier by a suspected drunk driver just west of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway.

Friends and family members confirmed the couple died at the scene, located three kilometres west of the Perimeter Highway on a historically dangerous stretch of the Trans-Canada ...

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