Fort Erie crash victim’s car “was his baby”

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(Updated) A Fort Erie man died last night after his corvette rolled over on the QEW near the Peace Bridge.

Donald Dubuc, 50, was taking his daughter’s boyfriend out for a ride with the top down when the tragedy happened. Last night about 8:30, Dubuc had just driven on to the Toronto-bound
lanes of the QEW at Central when for some reason he lost control of the car.

It veered into a ditch, hit a tree then the retaining wall, then the car flipped over — throwing both Dubuc and his passenger, a 20-year-old Welland man away from the car.

Dubuc was rushed to a Buffalo hospital in critical condition; the daughter’s boyfriend suffered only minor injuries.

“He loves his car, he loves his car… that was his baby.”

Dubuc’s aunt Therese found out this morning from a neighbour he had died in a Buffalo hospital. He grew up in Fort Erie and has a lot of family here. Today would have been his 51st birthday.

Dubuc , a truck driver in town, leaves a wife and two children.

His aunt, who helped raise him, regrets not going over to the house three weeks ago to see him. “I got sick, I couldn’t go… and now I won’t be able to say goodbye.”