Residents of Lake Country, B.C., are rallying to support Ashley Paxman, a 29-year-old woman who was hit by a car while walking home from work earlier this month. Paxman was struck by a vehicle along Highway 97 in the Central Okanagan community around 9 p.m. PT on Feb. 18. "Ashley was hit so hard that her shoes came right off," Paxman's cousin Tasha Meuser said Wednesday to Sarah Penton, the host of CBC's Radio West. Meuser says the driver didn't know he had hit Paxman until he arrived home. Meuser says she's heartened by the donations to Paxman's family after she set up a fundraiser for her cousin.

Source: CBC News February 27, 2021 05:37 UTC