Who's that girl?
A strange case of mistaken identity:
Cerak, 19, of Gaylord, was among nine people from Taylor University in Indiana riding in a school van that collided with a tractor-trailer on April 26.Five people died in the crash, including Laura VanRyn, a 22-year-old Taylor senior. But VanRyn's mother and father were mistakenly told that she was alive while Cerak's parents were told that their daughter, whose injuries initially left her in a near-comatose state, was dead.
VanRyn's family and boyfriend kept vigil at Cerak's bedside for five weeks before realizing the error.
I'd really like to know how they got the identification that wrong (not the people on vigil; I'm assuming a lot of bandages; the doctors, morgue, et al).
