Varinder Kaur Badh, one of the survivors of last weekend's fatal hit-and-run in Surrey, has been told her parents died in the crash.

"She wouldn't believe us; she thought we were lying," her brother-in-law Shin Bir said. "She was just in total shock. And it went from shock to wishing it were her.

"Then it was rage. She wants to get the people responsible – to get her hands on them. Then she started grieving. She went through all the emotions possible."

Varinder's parents, Dilbag Badh and his wife Bakhshish, died last Saturday after a white 2006 Acura TL rear-ended the BMW they were riding in.

The collision sent their car into a skid, ultimately slamming it into a power pole.

Dilbag and Bakhshish were pronounced dead at the scene.

Varinder was sent to hospital with a broken jaw and pelvis and internal injuries.

A second daughter, Rupi, who was driving, received minor injures.

Varinder's older brother, Raminder, delivered the news of their parents' deaths shortly after his sister was moved out of the intensive care unit of Royal Columbian Hospital Tuesday.

"We had to tell her," Bir said. "There's more of the public on the floor she's on now. We'd rather we told her than someone else."