GUELPH In a split second on January 31, 2021, the Lodge family was ripped apart. Susan Lodge was driving her three children home after an afternoon of cross country skiing when a horrific crash in North Dumfries took the lives of two of them. Amanda, 10, and Evan, 12, both died. Alyssa, 9, along with mother Susan, survived. Amanda was 10 when she passed away, 10-and-a-half, Susan said while looking at photos of her children. Evan, he was 12-and-a-half. They were just about to grow up. You know, they were measuring themselves every few weeks and even when we thought, it’s only been a couple of weeks, how could you possibly be taller? But they were every time.
KITCHENER Susan was driving the kids home from an afternoon of cross-country skiing, an online journal entry from a father read in part. Gregson Lodge was talking about his wife and children, who were involved in a serious crash last weekend near Cambridge. His son, 12-year-old Evan Lodge, did not survive. Police said that three vehicles were involved in the collision. The family was headed east on Sprague Road in North Dumfries when their van was hit by an SUV heading north. Shortly after, another SUV hit the two vehicles at the intersection. The van flipped over several times before landing on its roof, the journal entry said.