The death of a P.E.I. teenager late last month in a highway bus-stop incident is evoking trauma from decades past for an Island family who endured a similar fate on the same stretch of highway.

May 21 of this year, Isabella Bastardo Jiménez was struck by a tractor trailer along Route 2 near Dunstaffnage while crossing the highway to get on her school bus. She died days later.

"It went right back to the day," said Cheryl Cudmore said of hearing about the May incident, recalling the day 20 years ag…