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桑蕾特（右）和亚伦
http://www.gcpnews.com/articles/2011-01-12/C1013_60678.html
Two teens killed in Nation Township crash
By Claire Brownell, Ottawa Citizen January 11, 2011
OTTAWA — Garett Allen and his girlfriend Naomi Théoret were just down the road from her home when a collision with a parked semi-trailer brought their teenage love affair and both their lives to an end.
“They spent their time together and they spent their last afternoon together,” said Garett’s father Scott Allen.
Garett and Naomi were travelling westbound on Concession Road 2 between Claude Duval Road and County Road 10, about 10 kilometres southwest of Hawkesbury, when their 1994 GMC pickup struck a trailer that was blocking the lane at about 5:30 p.m. Monday. Police said Allen, 18, and Théoret, 17, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The teens spent their last day together the way they spent most days — squeezing in what little free time they had together between work and school.
Friends and family said Garett, who graduated from Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute last summer, picked Naomi up from her first day back in Grade 12 classes at Le Sommet high school in Hawkesbury. The two then went for dinner at Herb’s Travel Plaza, a roadside restaurant and towing company at the Vankleek Hill exit of Highway 417 where Naomi worked as a cook. Garett was planning to go to work himself at his grandfather’s farm after he dropped Naomi off.
Instead, their journey home ended when they crashed into the back of the parked trailer. Hawkesbury OPP Const. Pierre Dubois said the driver of the truck had detached the tractor from the trailer and brought the tractor to a nearby service centre.
It was dark at the time and the driver did not put flares or reflectors around the trailer. “They might have seen the trailer just at the last minute,” Dubois said. “There were no flares, no anything. Usually if it’s blocking the road, they have to put something to make it visible.”
Garett’s father Scott said Naomi played on his younger daughter’s soccer team, which is how she met his son. The two were an active couple and loved dirt biking and snowmobiling together during their four-month relationship, he said.
Garett could barely wait for the snow to fall each winter so he could go snowmobiling, Scott said. He was a successful rugby player in high school and had a wide circle of friends.
“He lived life to the fullest. He lived every day as it came. He had no enemies, very easygoing,” he said.
Allen had been working on his grandfather’s farm with his uncles and his younger brother since he was 15, and took on full time work after graduation, Scott said. “He was a farmer. He was up every morning at 5 a.m. and no one had to get him up.”
Scott said Naomi had a similar work ethic. She had been a cook at Herb’s for about a year, working weekends during the school year and full time during the summer.
The staff at Herb’s is very close and co-workers said it was typical for Naomi to spend her free time there. Some of them had gone to class with her that morning.
The wreckage of Garett’s pickup truck was brought to the tow yard at Herb’s. Peter Vink, a tow-truck driver who knew Naomi, was called to tow the pickup after the teens’ remains had been cleared from the collision.
News about the crash spread fast among the staff. Andree Wathier, a manager at Herb’s, said they gathered in the kitchen Monday night to mourn, reminisce about Naomi and Garett and express their condolences for their families.
“We basically cried our eyes out in the kitchen and laughed about the things they would do,” she said.
Herb’s has given its regular kitchen staff the weekend off to mourn and will be calling in former employees to cover the shifts, Wathier said.
On Facebook, condolences poured in for the two teens and their families.
“Sympathies to the Allen Family and Théoret Families, Way too young, so heart breaking, Rest in Peace Garett and Naomi,” wrote Kevin Bernique. “Gonna miss you Garett “Eeyore” Allen! RIP buddy,” wrote Christopher Lalonde.
Police will wait until the conclusion of their investigation before they decide whether or not to lay charges against the driver of the tractor trailer.
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