Cpl Scott Roberts: 1982-2008

On Friday, SooToday.com's Carol Martin returned from Sudbury, where she had covered the trial of a drunk driver who was convicted of causing the death of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Constable Don Doucet.

Less than 24 hours later, Carol received word last night from Alberta that her own son, Sault Ste. Marie-born Scott Roberts (shown), was killed in a motorcycle crash yesterday.

He was 25.

Media reports from Edmonton indicate that police are considering impaired driving charges against a 19-year-old man who was driving his car the wrong way on Highway 37 near Fort Saskatchewan when it was involved in a collision with Roberts' motorcycle.

The crash occurred around 2:50 a.m. yesterday.

Roberts was reportedly wearing his helmet when he was thrown from the bike, but died from injuries sustained in the crash.

Corporal Scott Roberts was serving as a mechanic with the Canadian Forces in Edmonton.

He had recently trained at Camp Borden.

Carol wrote the following note early this morning:

************************* Soon it will be all over the place. But meanwhile I whisper my anguish quietly to my keyboard while trying to prepare for the coming storms.

I don't want to be here now.

Few of his many friends know yet, but I hope that when they find out they will share with me their happy memories of time spent with him.

I need that emotional liferaft of knowing him as he was as a friend or a co-worker through others.

Scott Roberts, you are missed - deeply, hollowly, with a nauseating, biting pain that fills from the inside and threatens to overwhelm all who are close.

Could we just make this a mistake and let me see you for Yule 2008?

I promise to make a braided herb bread wreath.

I promise to have your sister's pictures ready and I will have a new chain for the medallion I gave you, too.

I promise. Just come home safe. Please. Please....

Our hearts have broken and fled, leaving only empty throbbing.

************************* A special memorial forum has been set up on SooToday.com's Editorials page, to allow readers to share their memories of Scott and to convey condolences to Carol Martin and other grieving family and friends.

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