A Mission couple is criticizing the Insurance Corporation of B.C.’s. no-fault insurance policy following a traumatic car crash.
On July 24, Jeff Romani was riding his motorcycle with his wife Nadia after a day spent berry-picking at a friend’s farm.
Romani was prepared to stop at a red light on Lougheed Highway at Laity Street when a driver appeared to run through the light and strike the couple head-on.
“We got hit, and then that’s all I remember,” Nadia said. “I remember talking to the lady. She was helping me, and she said, ‘Don’t move. Whatever you do, don’t move.’ And then I asked if my husband was alive.”
‘It shattered our lives’
Both Nadia and Jeff narrowly survived.
“It shattered our lives,” Jeff said.
The couple sustained numerous issues from the crash.
Jeff was in the intensive care unit at Royal Columbian Hospital for three days with fractures to his nasal bone and ribs. He said he needed eight blood transfusions and extensive surgeries.
“I …