Six years ago, a head-on car crash in Surrey, B.C., left Mikaela Wilhelmson’s bones and future shattered.
A witness at the scene remembers her saying: “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”
Since then, the young woman had been fighting for compensation. Recently she was awarded a $4-million settlement from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), along with a precedent-setting $100,000 award to be used for the future cost of surrogacy because her massive injuries left her unable to bear children.