Weeks after the accident, an irony of fate
For five weeks, the VanRyn family had with a Web log to inform friends and neighbors about their daughter Laura in the exploitation suffered injuries in a car accident claimed the lives of five people . On Friday, they prepared their memorial.
In an unusual mix-up stunned, that this city south of Grand Rapids, the authorities said that Laura VanRyn, 22, died in the accident and another student’s college, Whitney Cerak, 18, had survived and has been in a rehabilitation centre of the VanRyns on their side.
“It was like a shock to everyone,” said Karen McNees, teaches in the third class Dutton Elementary School in Caledonia, where Laura VanRyn’s aunt, Linda Carlson, teaches fourth grade.
“Linda said that what is most concerned about people ask,” How could you not know that this girl is not your niece? “” A McNees said. Among the many questions to emerge from a situation of confusion is perhaps the most sensitive. For five weeks, the VanRyn family believed they were care of her daughter back to health. The rest of the swelling of the face Whitney Cerak Volume, as they were choked tracheotomy, and they resumed their votes. Some have raised the question, as the false identity to have lasted so long.
Neither the VanRyns, still live the Ceraks, live 160 miles away in Gaylord, Michelle, were in an interview with journalists Friday.
Richard J. McNally, professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, the clinical work in trauma, said he had never heard of a case like this, when he understood how it could happen.
“Family members, she was told by the authorities, he made his daughter,” said Professor McNally. “The person in the hospital and jumped rather badly bruised, and it could consider accepting the judgement that the authorities”.
The complexity of the issues, young women were remarkably similar. They were both blond and had roughly the same height and build and other facial features, Laura VanRyn sister Lisa said in a recent publication of blogs.
But two weeks ago, Ms. VanRyn’s College roommate told officials Taylor, University of Upland, Ind., has questioned whether it was really Laura recovering in hospital, reports The Associated Press.
Representatives of the rehabilitation centre, where Ms. Cerak is recovering said that relatives and physical therapists within the agency began the identity of their patients last Sunday, when she began to respond to questions to Laura: “No, it is Whitney.”
Bruce Rossman, a spokesman for the hospital Spectrum Health System, a less than 24 hours elapsed, the weather began Cerak woman said that her name at the time of his identity was confirmed with dental records.
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