There can be nothing more comforting than a standard, condolence message sent by Ontario’s Premier about the “heartbreaking loss” whereby five children were killed in an unidentified collision at the intersection of 4th Line and Wellington Road 12 north of Kitchener, Ontario on June 13, 2026. This would seem to be the case since police and official news media did not report any useful information about the actual collision. The only available information is that the collision involved a van and a SUV. The five deceased children were riding in the van. There was conflicting information that either 9 or 10 persons occupied the van.
It is notable that a day after the tragedy news media announced that police would be conducting a “new safety blitz” focusing on the dangers that exist at roadway intersections. There was no clear explanation what the blitz entailed and what police were actually intending to do as part of the blitz.
The propaganda about the safety blitz is, in the view of Gorski Consulting, a red herring, that has been thrown onto the public deck so all can see that something is being done, even though there has been nothing done. The issue is not the danger of collisions at intersections. The issue is that five children were killed but no adults were killed. This fact is been hidden from public understanding.
No one has provided any description of the involved van and whether it was capable of properly transporting 9 or 10 occupants. Some specialty vans could be capable of such transportation but that is not possible for most, typical vans. So were the children who died properly restrained by infant carriers, child seats or booster cushions? This issue has cleverly been ignored by police and news media. And this is a recurring problem.
There have been many previous collisions of suspicious child fatalities where those fatal results have not been discussed, for seemingly bazaar reasons. Surely, any person, in any official capacity, who knew that there was a life-threatening danger to a child’s life, would do something to broadcast that danger. For the simple fact that when the danger remains unknown, it cannot be corrected. And the danger will cause the death of future, innocent children. This relationship is not that difficult to comprehend.
It has been my personal experience, from examining an admittedly small sample of collisions involving serious injury and death to children that a child that is properly restrained, particularly in an infant carrier or child seat, gains superior protection from these devices compared to adults simply wearing a three-point (lap & shoulder) seatbelt. That extra casing around the child’s body is what gives the child that extra “helmet” of protection. In addition, most of these devices restrain the child with a 5-point, harness, something that is difficult to do with adults unless they are in racing cars. Yet it has been my personal experience that I have witnessed unnecessary tragedies where children were either not restrained, or were improperly restrained and this has led to very difficult tragedies that need not have occurred. In monitoring various news reports over the years I have observed a number of occasions where child deaths have occurred in suspicious circumstances, circumstances that ought to have been uncovered, but were not. And because these circumstances have not been uncovered those tragedies have been repeated, for nonsensical reasons.
So, for the present matter, it is imperative that the circumstances by which the five, innocent children came to their deaths, ought to be made public. If this is a matter of a very high severity collision whereby there is a reasonable explanation for these deaths then so be it. It could be a terrible tragedy that we would find difficult to avoid. But if this collision consequence is a matter of improper or no child restraint then it must be revealed as such.
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