Family seeks help for injured flagperson from Spalding crash

Family of Sam Fetherston are reaching out, online, seeking support for the flagperson injured in a highway crash May 3 in which three teenagers died.

According to Alyna Chowdhury, an older sister, Fetherston, 21, had just moved to Saskatchewan from Comox, B.C. when the crash happened near Spalding, Sask. RCMP saidtwo vehicles were stopped at a construction zone when a semi-trailer truck ran into the back of one. Three teenage boysin that car died at the scene.

Chowdhury said Fetherston was the flagperson at the site. Hewas flown to the hospital in critical condition.

"He is currently in a medically induced coma with a broken collar bone, shoulder and humerus bone," Chowdhury noted in a GoFundMe post. "We found out last night that he also has brain damage. We will not know how bad it is until he wakes up."

Chowdhury said money raised will go to support her brother's needs and to help family travel to Saskatoon to see him.

"We are hopeful that he will be flown home soon, or at least to a much closer hospital," she wrote.

In another note to media, Chowdhury described Fetherston as a fun-loving young man.

"He is a goofball," she said. "He's always dancing around and cracking jokes. His nieces and nephews miss his terribly as he loves playing with them."