‘She’s a miracle’: Family says 2-year-old is healing after crash that killed her parents

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) — A fatal head-on collision on an Alaska highway last week killed a Fairbanks couple.

According to Alaska State Troopers, 38-year-old Sasha Hart and her husband, 41-year-old David Hart, were killed in the Oct. 19 crash on the Parks Highway near Trapper Creek.

According to troopers, Sasha Hart was driving a Subaru Forester south on the Parks Highway when she crossed the center line and collided head-on with a northbound Ford F-250.

Their 2-year-old daughter, Paige, was also in the Subaru and survived.

“She’s a miracle. Aren’t you?” Shery Elterman-Hart, David Hart’s sister, said as she held her niece during an interview.

A life built in Fairbanks

According to the Hart family, the couple just celebrated their 10-year anniversary. They built a life together in Fairbanks, where they blended Sasha’s Jamaican and David’s Alaskan lifestyles.

“She just became one of us. We were really close with David before they met, but then when she came, she just sort of lumped right in,” Elterman-Hart said.

The family said the two enjoyed traveling and watching hockey. They also shared a love for food, the family said.

Above all, they loved being parents to their daughter.

“She was their entire world,” Katie Ragsdale, David Hart’s sister, said. “I don’t know if it’s Paige’s house or their house.”

Paige’s recovery

The family said certain traits of David and Sasha are seen in Paige, including the same “stink” face as her mother and her father’s sweet tooth.

“You still have a piece of them, a living piece of them still on Earth,” Ragsdale said.

According to the family, Paige is healing fast after suffering six broken bones from the crash.