VANCOUVER - Friends of Brian Wood — killed Friday in a devastating car accident south of the border — have established a trust fund in his memory in aid of his pregnant wife.

“We’re just so devastated by the loss of Brian,” said Amy Greenwood, who helped to establish the Brian Wood Memorial Fund this week through the North Shore Credit Union.

Wood, 33, a computer-gaming designer from North Vancouver, died when the SUV he was driving was struck head-on by another vehicle on Whidbey Island, Washington.

Wood’s wife, Erin Wood, 31, suffered a head injury in the crash, but is expected to recover. She is seven-months pregnant with the couple’s first child, due Nov. 7.

In a telephone interview from her parent’s home in Redmond, Washington, Erin Wood said she remembers little about the crash, other than her husband’s quick actions behind the wheel likely saved her life and that of their unborn child.

“I remember a car swerving towards us and he (Brian) braked hard and turned right. That meant the SUV went right into him and crushed him and that I was saved,” she said.

Criminal charges of vehicle homicide and assault are expected to be filed as early as today against the driver of the second vehicle, 21-year-old Jordyn Weichert of Oak Harbor, Wash., along with her front-seat passenger, Samantha Bowling, 22.

Police allege both women were high on drugs at the time of the crash, and that Weichert had passed control of the steering wheel over to Bowling in order to take off her sweater.

Two men in the back of Weichert’s vehicle were also killed in the collision.

Erin Wood said she isn’t angry with Weichert. Rather, she said, “I think there is too much sadness right now to feel anger.”

But, she added, “I want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to someone else’s husband or son or brother. For that, it’s important to me that people who are a danger to society are put away, just to protect those of us that are just trying to go about our daily lives.”

A funeral service is expected to be held for Wood in North Vancouver on Sept. 19 — two days after the couple was to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.

Erin Wood said she hasn’t fully accepted that her husband is gone.

“Never in a million years would I have thought that this could happen,” she said of the accident.

She called Brian a “wonderful husband and very good friend.

“He was just so excited about being a dad. He really would have made a wonderful father,” she said.

Contributions to the Brian Wood Memorial Trust can be made directly at any North Shore Credit. Preparations were underway Tuesday to set up a Paypal account so that donations could also be made online.

dahansen@vancouversun.com