{"id":348105,"date":"2025-12-16T03:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348105\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:45:09","slug":"family-mourns-loss-of-3-year-old-daughter-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348105\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mourns loss of 3-year-old daughter killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Cambridge family is grieving the loss of a three-year-old girl who was hit and killed in a collision on Dec. 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was our angel, she was our everything,\u201d her mother, Shihan Shea, said Monday. \u201cMy heart hurts more than I can bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the request of her family, as well as Indigenous cultural practices, CTV News Kitchener is not identifying the girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the next year we won\u2019t say her name because we want her to continue her journey with the creator,\u201d explained Serena Welesy from The Healing of the Seven Generations, an Indigenous-led organization serving the Region of Waterloo and surrounding areas. \u201cWe want her to be able to move on and be in peace.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"cambridge child struck hit fatal car crash 3-year-old cedar street westgate centre plaza The 3-year-old girl who was stuck and killed on Cedar Street in Cambridge, Ont. on Dec. 11, 2025. (Courtesy: Spencer MacDonald) <\/p>\n

Shea and her daughter were hit by a vehicle as the pair were walking on Cedar Street, near the Westgate Centre plaza. At the time, the three-year-old was seated in a stroller. She was rushed to hospital where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n

The driver of the car, 75-year-old man from Cambridge, was not hurt.<\/p>\n

\"\"pedestrian struck cambridge cedar street fatal crash collision Waterloo Regional Police at the scene of a collision on Cedar Street in Cambridge on Dec. 11, 2025. (Dave Pettitt\/CTV News) <\/p>\n

CTV News reached out to the Waterloo Regional Police Service on Monday for an update.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe investigation is ongoing by members of our Traffic Services Unit and there are no new details to provide,\u201d they said in an email, adding no charges have been laid at this time.<\/p>\n

Meantime, on Monday morning, a sacred fire ceremony was held outside the Ga\u2019nig\u01ebhi:yo Indigenous Child Care and Family Centre in Cambridge.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ga’nig\u01ebhi:yo Indigenous Child Care and Family Centre Spencer MacDonald and Shihan Shea three-year-old struck killed cambridge Spencer MacDonald and Shihan Shea, the parents of the three-year-old girl who was struck and killed on Cedar Street in Cambridge, standing in front of the Ga’nig\u01ebhi:yo Indigenous Child Care and Family Centre their daughter attended. Dec. 15, 2025. (Hannah Schmidt\/CTV News) <\/p>\n

\u201cWe usually start a sacred fire and we have it going for about four days,\u201d Wesley explained. \u201cThis is to help that spirit pass on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunity has been very supportive<\/a> and everything that has gone on since the day of,\u201d said Shea.<\/p>\n

Even though the circumstances leading up to the crash have not been revealed<\/a>, the girl\u2019s family is pushing for healing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about preventing another family from standing where we are today and having to go through this horrific pain,\u201d said Spencer MacDonald, the girl\u2019s father. \u201cWe\u2019re speaking today not out of rage, but of love for our child and concern for public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"cambridge child struck hit fatal car crash 3-year-old cedar street westgate centre plaza The 3-year-old girl who was stuck and killed on Cedar Street in Cambridge, Ont. on Dec. 11, 2025. (Courtesy: Spencer MacDonald) <\/p>\n

Shea, MacDonald and Indigenous leaders are calling for tougher road safety laws. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to have a law enacted that will require an automatic temporary licence suspension for any driver involved in a collision that results in death, until a full investigation is completed,\u201d MacDonald explained, insisting, \u201cThis is not a finding of guilt. This is a safety measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her parents, the loss of their daughter is indescribable. <\/p>\n

\u201cYour smile lit up our world, and you\u2019ll be deeply missed. I remember your laughter, your curiosity, your sassy side. Rest peacefully my little unicorn, my princess,\u201d Shea said. \u201cI love you always and forever, my sweet baby girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"cambridge child struck hit fatal car crash 3-year-old cedar street westgate centre plaza The 3-year-old girl who was stuck and killed on Cedar Street in Cambridge, Ont. on Dec. 11, 2025. (Courtesy: Spencer MacDonald) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cambridge family is grieving the loss of a three-year-old girl who was hit and killed in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-348105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}