When Patrick Hare of Purple Deer, visited a mall or a retailer he was the person who all the time held the door open for everyone, stated his son Ron Hare.
“At occasions, you already know, he might hardly stroll at finest, however he’s nonetheless there holding the door, ensuring all people will get in, and it’s only one factor he all the time did,” Ron Hare stated. “You recognize, he’d all the time cease to assist.”
Patrick Hare, 80, died final week, days after being injured on a freeway outdoors Qualicum Seashore on Vancouver Island.
Police say Hare had pulled over within the early morning hours of March 2 to assist a lady whose automotive hit a pole.
Hare and the lady have been standing close to the broken car when it was hit by a suspected impaired driver, and police say Hare seemingly saved the lady’s life by pushing her out of the way in which.
His son stated in an interview on Tuesday that he noticed his father’s cellphone log, exhibiting he’d known as 911 3 times as he waited with the lady for assist, a testomony to his selfless nature, Ron Hare stated.
“That’s why he stopped alongside the freeway. He simply didn’t move and maintain driving on. He stopped to see what he might supply,” he stated.
Hare and the lady have been taken to hospital with severe accidents, however Hare died in a Victoria hospital.
Now, Ron Hare, his two brothers, their kids and his father’s buddies are mourning his dying after “tragedy took him,” his son stated.
Hare stated his father had solely been on Vancouver Island for just a few hours when he stopped to assist the lady, not removed from a apartment in Parksville the place he spent a few months vacationing annually.
His dad beloved popcorn and visiting farmers markets, consuming briskets, studying books and watching the tides whereas on Vancouver Island, Ron Hare stated.
Household life was additionally essential to his dad, who misplaced each his dad and mom when he was simply 21, he stated.
Hare stated the dying has left his dad’s family and friends combating the loss, “his grandchildren, particularly.”
The loss feels “mindless,” he stated, however his household desires to recollect him as a devoted household man whose final act was heroic.
“Even on the final second he’s nonetheless pondering of different individuals attempting to push them out of the way in which and save them,” his son stated. “She may need been fatally injured too, if he hadn’t carried out that. I’d actually like to fulfill the woman sometime.”
The crash is now beneath investigation by the BC Freeway Patrol in Parksville, B.C.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed March 12, 2024.
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press
