Daylesford crash victims' family speaks out
The family of the victims of the fatal crash in Daylesford, Victoria, have spoken out, sharing the last conversation they had with their daughter before her untimely death.
Pratibha Sharma, her nine-year-old daughter Anvi, and her partner Jatin, 30, were killed outside the The Royal Daylesford Hotel on Sunday after a car crashed into the pub's beer garden, along with two of their friends.
Pratibha’s father Vikas said she has spoken to her mother Urmila just two hours before her death.
“She said they were staying in a beautiful house all together,” he told the Herald Sun.
Mrs Sharma added, “She said: tomorrow I will come (home) early”.
Mr Sharma said they tried to call Pratibha later that night but there was “no reply”.
“We thought it was okay and there was no need to disturb them because they were enjoying themselves,” he said, expressing his disbelief at his hardworking daughter’s sudden death.
“Why? Why? I don’t understand,” he said. “Her whole life she struggled, worked hard. Her beautiful daughter, also dead.”
The heartbreaking recollections comes just hours after the driver of the car that crashed into the pub's beer garden was questioned by police for the first time.
The unnamed man, a 66-year-old from Mount Macedon, was spoken to by police on Tuesday but was not arrested or charged.
“At this time the driver has not been charged, with inquiries to continue after his eventual release from care,” a police statement provided to the Herald Sun said.
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