'I felt like a sitting duck': B.C. mother recounts harrowing escape from scaffolding collapse in Regina | Page 16 | Unpublished
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'I felt like a sitting duck': B.C. mother recounts harrowing escape from scaffolding collapse in Regina

August 17, 2026

Claire Johnstone was loading her young son into her car when, all of a sudden, a scaffold came crashing down next to her car on Aug. 11. "It took me a second to realize that it was actually hitting the car," said Johnstone.



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