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Car Crash Victim Wins Canadian Lottery

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When bad things happen to good people, you can sometimes count on the lottery to make amends. At least that is how it sometimes seems to me.

Twenty one years ago, Canadian Paul Jaques was involved in a car crash that permanently injured his back.

And then he won the lottery, with a winning $5 million Super 7 ticket.

“We were going to stop him from going to physiotherapy because we couldn’t afford it anymore,” Jaques’ wife, Cheryl, said at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.’s prize center earlier this week.

Well, he still has a bad back unfortuntely, but at least he can afford the therapy. Thank God.

“It’s given me security,” the 41-year-old said.

“I got rear-ended by a guy who didn’t see me. I was hit so hard that it made me turn my shoulders 180 degrees to my hips. It tore everything and I was sore for a long time.”

Following the accident, Jaques worked for 15 years at a car manufacturing plant to support his 19-yer old son. For the past six years, however, he has been unemployed, making ends meet without disability benefits.

Now, he plans to buy a car and help out his mother-in-law so “it’ll be easier for her to get groceries.”

On Sunday night, Oct. 19, Jaques told Cheryl to check the winning lotto numbers for Friday’s draw.

“I looked at the lottery ticket before we went to bed so we could go to sleep rich, and I couldn’t believe we did,” he said.

Cheryl was never a lottery player before she met her husband. “My parents always give him a hard time because they say it’s a waste of money. But not now,” she said.

By the numbers:

Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is worth $42 million.

Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is worth $12 million.

Good luck.

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