A man claiming to be the driver of a Jeep that struck and killed a spectator at a charity event in Edmonton Saturday says he is sorry for what happened.“I have never been so terrified in my life and I am soooooooooo sorry,” he wrote on the site for a local Jeep drivers’ group.
“I know there will be a ton of hatred and speculation regarding what happened, and I accept that. But please understand that I would never go out of my way to hurt anybody or deliberately inflict any kind of pain, especially to the off road communities that have become my family.”
The 20-year-old woman was struck where the driver was performing a demonstration in which his Jeep drove over the protruding wheels of another Jeep.
Witnesses say one of the vehicles appeared to go out of control and drove onto a vehicle where the woman was standing.
Paramedics performed CPR on her but she was pronounced dead upon arrival at hospital.
The man said that he didn’t know who was struck, but that it's all he can think about.
“My heads really not in a good place right now,” he wrote. “I wish I could take that that poor girls place so badly.”
Edmonton police are continuing their investigation. There is no word on whether anyone will face charges.
