TORONTO — The family of three generations of women killed in a multi-vehicle crash on Ontario's Highway 400 is searching for a "Good Samaritan" who may have saved another family member.
Valbona Vokshi, 35, her five-year-old daughter Isabela Kuci and 55-year-old mother Xhemile Vokshi died in the crash Friday.
A fourth woman not related to the family, 27-year-old Maria Lipska, was also killed.
Lawyers for the family say Vokshi's sister and her sister's two-year-old son Aron were in another car involved in the collision.
They're looking for a woman who they say pulled Aron out of his carseat after the crash.
In a statement read by lawyers on Wednesday, Blerta Vokshi said her sister "always put others first" and called her niece "an angel."
"Life is delicate and it is often only during these sorts of tragedies that we come to realize this fact," she said in the statement.
The fiery crash occurred in the highway's southbound lanes shortly before 10 p.m. last Friday and involved three transport trucks along with several other vehicles. One of the trailers and two vehicles caught fire.
Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the crash was "absolutely preventable" and that investigators were looking into the actions of the driver of one of the transport trucks involved in the crash.
According to the OPP, 128 people have died on Ontario roads so far this year.
