Buxton crash

The 18-year-old driver of a car which horrifically crashed on the outskirts of Sydney on Tuesday, killing five teenagers, has been arrested by NSW Police.

“Ou hearts are with the families involved and our thoughts are with them at this tragic time,” he said. “I could have got mum to pick them up... “Just acknowledging the tragedy that occurred overnight, and on behalf of the people of NSW, my condolences to all the families and friends of the five children who passed away,” Mr Perrottet said. “Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and friends of the young people who lost their lives,” the school shared in a statement. “My thoughts also go out to the first responders, many of whom were volunteers from Buxton.” “I played soccer with them... “My prayers and thoughts go out to the family. Picton High School are offering additional counselling services to students and said they are “devastated” by the loss. She told the Today Show she was still feeling “a bit shocked and still finding it hard to believe”. “The scene was extremely traumatic,” Inspector Hogan said of the police officers who attended the scene. “She was my best friend and she was like an older sister to me.” A neighbour of one of the teenagers killed, Louis Dimech, took to Facebook saying the boy had “lived a rough life”.

A first responder at the scene of the Buxton crash that killed five young high school friends has spoken ou...

"That's understandable because we don't want to have to confront that scene. "The children I hear went to the local high school … and there are a lot of people in the community … "I've been to many fatalities in the area in my six years that I've been here and that was probably one of the worst that I've ever been to. READ MORE: "That's gonna be something that I will need to process." I think that would be something that would be extremely difficult to deal with." "It's a big loss for the whole community and I think that it's going to take a little bit of time to heal." "One of our other firefighters who went there last night, her son was out and about and she was genuinely concerned saying, 'just tell me the car when we get there because I just don't want to hop out straight away'," Morris said. Morris has worked as a firefighter nearby at Picton for the last six years and her unit was one of the first to arrive at the scene last night. "We didn't initially know who was in the car, how many people … "It's horrendous and it will affect the community," Cindy Morris, a local mother-of-two and one of the first at the scene, told A Current Affair.

An 18-year-old man has been charged after five teenagers died in a single-vehicle crash south-west of Sydney on Tuesday night.

Jamarley Frail, 18, said on Wednesday that one of the victims “was like a sister to me. [Sign up here](/link/follow-20170101-p57ogt). “I don’t know. It just didn’t make sense to me and still doesn’t,” Frail said. “I tried to do CPR, but only one of them had a pulse. I could’ve prevented it.

Counselling and mental health services are preparing to support a broken community after a horror crash southwest of Sydney claimed the lives of five teens ...

An 18-year-old male P-plate driver, who was the only one to survive the crash, remains in Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries. "Can you ever prepare for going into a mass casualty situation, not completely," supt Dewberry said. Advertisement "Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and friends of the young people who lost their lives." "The scene was extremely confronting for the people who rang triple-0, the first responders and the next of kin who found themselves drawn to the scene," NSW Police Acting Inspector Jason Hogan said. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those involved, the Picton High School and Buxton communities and the emergency responders who dealt with this heartbreaking scene."

After fires and floods in recent years, the people of Buxton and Picton are now dealing with the loss of five kids in a devastating car crash, ...

But it was pointless because they were all gone, except the driver." "Half the car was sitting here on the driveway … and then I look to the right and see the rest of the car around the tree," he said. The latest round of rain saw floodwaters rise to 16 metres, and flooding had savaged homes and roads, he said. "The main town, the main streets of Picton, they were significantly impacted [by the floods]," she said. "And a tragedy of this magnitude is going to have ripple effects for their family, friends and through the local community," he said. "It's just horrible, just walking around even to the local shops, you can just feel the sadness from everyone," she said after leaving flowers at the scene of the crash. "You just try to do the best you can, try and help. Ms McTaggart also reflected on the string of traumatic events to hit the community, including recent successive floods and the Black Summer fires of 2019. He said the community was "numb and in shock" following the latest tragedy to hit the area. Mr Gould said Buxton was a "very close-knit village" of about 1,000 people, and some of the first responders "are likely to have known at least some of these kids". Zyra Bryant, 18, said he went to the scene in the hours after hearing about the crash.

Five teenagers were killed in a crash southwest of Sydney on Tuesday night. Police say speed was likely a factor.

The man is under police observation in hospital and will be interviewed when “suitable”, Hogan said. The drivers need to take responsibility in all circumstances for their manner of driving to keep themselves, their passengers and other road users in NSW safe. “We’ll be offering them some support and we’ve reached out to the road victims’ support group to provide ongoing welfare and counselling as part of the services that they provide. Hogan said the tragedy “must be extremely traumatic for family, friends, first responders and the local community to have five young lives lost in such circumstances as this”. All the victims were students of Picton High School - in Years 9 and 11 - while the driver is a former student. “They invited me to hang out, but I told them I couldn’t stay out late as I had to get up at 6am for school.”

“Unfathomable,” one local says, the day after five teenagers lost their lives in a horror single-car crash on the outskirts of Sydney.

“He is going to go through hell,” he says. “We have two separate counselling teams that are onsite at the school, one of those teams is a dedicated expert unit to support staff … “I’ve known them all my life and been very close, she’s a beautiful girl, absolutely beautiful,” he says. Standing 5km down the narrow, winding road at another fatal incident, she said it felt like an all-too-familiar situation. “They were all our friends.” The mourners carried daffodils, cards and stuffed toys.

An 18-year-old man has been charged after five teenagers died in a crash at Buxton, south-west of Sydney.

They just need a bit of space." Particularly some of our younger kids," he said. "There are a lot of people across the shire that are hurting.