One year later; what’s changed in Sask. since a drunk driver killed the Van de Vorst family

It’s a somber anniversary for a Saskatoon family that lost four members in a drunk driving crash one year ago.

Parents Jordan and Chanda Van de Vorst and their two children — two-year-old Miguire and five-year-old Kamryn – died when an SUV trying to cross the highway from Wanuskewin Road hit their car on Jan. 3, 2016.
 
The next day, RCMP charged 49-year-old Catherine McKay with four counts of impaired driving causing death.
 
McKay pleaded guilty in June and was sentenced the next month to 10 years in prison. She’s also forbidden to drive for 12 years when she is released.

The holidays were a particularly cruel reminder of what the family lost according to Jordan’s father Louis Van de Vorst.

“You know in the back of your mind that it’s the holidays, but things just aren’t the same,” he said. “Instead of having four grandchildren, now we only have two. We used to have 14 of us around the family table; now we’ve pretty well lost a third of that.”