“I can’t describe the emotions,” says the partner of the woman killed by a truck

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The woman who was hit by a truck in Pointe-aux-Trembles last week was a 37-year-old mother of three on her way to a long-awaited appointment to undergo therapy for her hips.

“She was coming in for her therapy and she didn’t want to go because her legs hurt so much that day, but I convinced her to go,” Matthew Doré, Faye Moisan-Piquette’s partner, told the Montreal Gazette on Monday. . “She had waited five years on a list (for the appointment) to have access to that type of therapy. She had missed the last one because her legs were killing her and she is a little person.

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“She was so small, but so strong. “She impressed a lot of people with her way of handling pain and the way she treated the children.”

The therapy consisted of helping her with cortisone injections that she needed in her hips every three months.

Because he had missed the previous appointment, Doré said, his wife was at risk of losing access to therapy entirely if he missed the one she was going to attend. She began to cry on the phone as she described her last conversation, during which he encouraged her to go.

“If I hadn’t said anything…” Doré said as his voice trailed off.

On April 24, Moisan-Piquette was run over at the intersection of Sherbrooke and Robert-Chevalier streets. He seemed to arrive 20 minutes early for his 2 p.m. appointment, and Doré assumes it was so he could smoke a cigarette first.

Doré said he spent the past week trying to find answers to what happened while trying to plan his funeral.

She said that whenever they crossed a street with their two young children (a three-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son), she always insisted that they should have enough time to cross safely. Moisan-Piquette also had a 15-year-old daughter through a previous relationship.

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“I hope she hasn’t suffered. I hope she didn’t have to think about me and the children while she suffered,” Doré said before describing how she found out about the tragedy.

He said he came home from work that afternoon and took a shower. She was surprised to see that she was not home when she finished showering because her routine was to pick up her children from daycare at 3:45 pm.

When she didn’t show up, Doré said, he decided to stay with his children alone. As she walked there she passed the intersection where police were still investigating.

“I started to feel very panicked. I had a very bad feeling. I saw the truck. “I saw the police,” she said, adding that while looking at the crime scene he heard a voice that told him, “Pick up the children.”

Doré said he was hopeful his wife would still be at their appointment, but he kept panicking while doing everything he could to not let his children see that he was worried.

When he and the children returned home, he began calling the family to see if they had any news. While he was making the calls, he noticed that there was a message on his answering machine.

The message was from Moisan-Piquette’s therapist asking him why he had not shown up for the appointment.

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“My heart stopped. I had the number, so I called the therapist,” Doré said. “When she answered, she recognized the number and started crying.”

The therapist informed him that Montreal police found his business card at Moisan-Piquette and informed him that he had been in “a really bad accident.”

He said he called 911 and after answering a few questions, someone confirmed that a woman his age had been in an accident and that police officers would be stopping by his house with more information.

“They told me she had died. After that I can’t describe the emotions. The fear, the anger, all mixed together,” she said, adding that informing Moisan-Piquette’s teenage daughter “was the worst part. That almost destroyed me.

“She was my partner. She helped me through thick and thin. She never gave up on anything. She was always positive. She faced a lot of pain in her life. Everything was a little more difficult for her, but she never complained.”

Bruno Lachance, 61, was charged last week with criminal negligence causing death “while taking medication and driving a motor vehicle.” He is also accused of causing Moisan-Piquette’s death while driving a motor vehicle. On Friday, he was ordered released after Lachance agreed to post $250 bail. He will return to court in July.

A fundraiser has been created in the gofundme website to help raise money for Moisan-Piquette’s family. The goal is to raise $25,000 “to help ease the financial burden that comes with such a devastating loss. Contributions raised will be used to help Faye’s family with funeral expenses, as well as to support her children in the days and months to come.”

As of Monday afternoon, more than $2,000 had been raised.

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