By paNOW Staff

Muskoday accident replays in the mind of one boy

Aug 1, 2014 | 6:24 AM

In the aftermath of a collision on Muskoday First Nation, many questions still remain unanswered.

On Saturday night, a car hit a young boy who was biking with some friends on the shoulder of Highway 3. The boy, Jared Bear, would later die in hospital.

The investigation is still ongoing and the alleged driver, Gordan Crain, 51, has requested bail. His bail hearing has been postponed until Aug. 6.

For some, the night of the incident is still very vivid.

Dakota Bear, 13, was biking with Jared and three other boys at the time of the crash that claimed Jared’s life.

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He said they saw a car coming behind them and thought it was going fine, until it swerved in their direction.

“Jared didn’t know what to do because he was only 11, so he went into the ditch and that’s where he got hit,” said Dakota. “I wiped out pretty bad, but I didn’t really care because I didn’t really feel it because my adrenaline was rushing.”

“It happened so fast,” said Dakota.

“I told [another friend] to go home and get as much help as he could.”

According to Dakota, an RN was in a vehicle who drove up after the crash and she helped a lot. Many others rushed to help as well, including Dakota who went to his friend's side.

“I told him I loved him and that it was going to be alright because he was still breathing.”

The boys had been friends for four years, and the incident has taken quite a toll on Dakota, who said he lost one of his best friends.

“He was like a brother to me because we’d always spend time together. Whenever I did something to him he wouldn’t care and whenever he did something to me I wouldn’t care because I knew, and we knew, that our friendship was more important than anything else,” said Dakota.

Since the crash, he said the whole incident has remained a shock.

“When it happened, it happened like the blink of an eye. And it happened like right there, down by my grandma’s house,” said Dakota.

“Whenever I go outside I just look at that spot and what happened just keeps replaying in my mind.”

The incident has been hard to shake, he said.

“The first night I couldn’t go to bed and the second night I stayed up until 6 a.m. and then I got some rest,” said Dakota. His first day of relief was at the PAEX, he said, where he could finally block out what happened, momentarily.

“I already miss him a lot,” he said, describing his friend as “a good loving person. He would never do anything bad.”

“Selfless; he was always there for you or you were always be there for him, because that’s how he was.”

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