'I have nothing now': Regina man describes death of fiancée to alleged drunk driver

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In seconds, an alleged impaired driver stripped Eric Sollosy of his future.

The Regina man was engaged to be married to Adrienne Daigneault. They already had a small family.

Then, on Oct. 8, in a matter of seconds, she was gone.

Sollosy and Daigneault were stopped at a red light in Regina when they were rear-ended. The crash killed 28-year-old Daigneault instantly. They had planned to go wedding dress shopping in Saskatoon the next day.

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"It's been pretty awful, to be honest. My life has nothing in it now, right? I mean, I had a lot of support, which has been really great, but she was my world and it's gone now," he said.

Daigneault's nine-year-old son lived with the couple. With no custody over him, though, Sollosy has lost him as well.

"I have nothing now," he said. "I went from having a family to having nothing."

Heading home from the pharmacy

In the early hours of Oct. 8, the couple was heading home from a run to the pharmacy as Daigneault needed medicine for a toothache.

While stopped at the red light at the intersection of 25th Avenue and Albert Street, Sollosy spotted a vehicle barreling down on him. He had no time to react.

"I didn't even have time to think, 'Hey, we're going to get hit,'" he said. "It was just a knowledge it was going to happen. I couldn't do anything. I didn't have time to say anything. I saw it. I knew it and we were hit."

A Dodge Journey SUV rear-ended their Kia Spectra.

"We just got launched, launched into the intersection. We spun," said Sollosy.

"As soon as I looked over, she was unconscious and I could hear the blood running out of her mouth and I could hear it splashing off the centre console. I just tried to hold her head up so she wouldn't bleed as much."

Daigneault died at the scene. 

Sollosy was not seriously hurt.

The driver of the SUV, 28-year-old Brendan Sugar, has been charged with impaired driving causing death. He was released on $1,000 bail.

Long friendship began online

Sollosy (from Weyburn, Sask.) and Daigneault (from Île-à-la-Crosse, Sask.) met more than a decade ago while playing video games online.

The pair kept in touch and didn't meet in person until six years ago. They were engaged in 2015 and planned to marry in August.

Sollosy described Daigneault as beautiful, funny, smart and kind.

He said she was always doing things for others, especially her son. She first studied psychology in school before turning to nursing.

"She had a huge heart for helping people, especially for the elderly," said Sollosy. "All she wanted to do was help people."

Sollosy also survived a car crash in November 2011. He has had numerous surgeries on his right foot and has decided to amputate it in the spring.

"She took such good care of me, too, especially the last year with how things were really bad for me with the previous injury. It would have been a nightmare without her," he said.

Sollosy hopes telling his personal story will affect people's behaviour and thinking when it comes to driving after drinking.