Buxton crash near Picton: The Project host Waleed Aly urges viewers remember the toll on teen driver
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Emotional moment Waleed Aly urges viewers to ‘not forget’ about the driver who survived horror car crash that killed his five teenage mates: ‘Imagine what he will have to live with’
- The Project hosts discussed tragic Buxton car crash on on Wednesday’s show
- Waleed Aly urged viewers to not forget the toll on the teenage driver
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The Project host Waleed Aly has urged viewers to consider the teenage driver in a devastating ute crash that killed his five mates and the toll he will have to live with.
Tyrell Edwards, 18, was behind the wheel of a Nissan Navara ute when it veered off the road and slammed into a tree about 100km southwest of Sydney on Tuesday night.
The P-plate driver was the sole survivor and was found beside the wreck on East Parade, Buxton, a village of about 1,000, near Picton, just after 8pm. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Three girls and two boys – all friends from Picton High School and aged between 14 and 16 – were tragically killed.
Aly said he wasn’t making assumptions about blame but that: ‘We shouldn’t forget the survivor’.
‘Imagine what he will have to live with and in a small community as well. Every aspect of this in every direction is just awful,’ Aly, a father-of-two, said.
The Project hosts discussed the tragic Buxton car crash which killed five teenagers southwest of Sydney on Wednesday’s program (pictured)
At mid-morning, a flurry of groups of mourners arrived to pay their respects and leave tributes
Two boys, Antonio Desisto, 16, and Tyrese Bechard, 15, and three girls Summer Williams, Lily Van De Putte and Gabriella McLennan, aged either 14 or 15, were sadly killed in the crash.
Mr Edwards, who had just graduated from Picton High, was arrested for mandatory blood and urine testing but is not in police custody.
He went to Liverpool hospital and was treated for non life-threatening injuries and it is understood no charges have been laid as of Wednesday.
Tyrell Edwards, 18, (pictured) had been behind the wheel of the Nissan Navara ute when it veered off the road and slammed into a tree in southwest Sydney on Tuesday night
Paramedics were pictured wheeling the male driver towards an ambulance that took the 18-year-old to Liverpool Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing (pictured)
A close friend of Mr Edwards, Jamarley Frail, said it wasn’t clear whose car the 18-year-old pub worker was driving.
‘I’ve never seen him in a Nissan. I don’t know whose car that is,’ said Jamarley, who is also 18 and was in the same year at Picton High School as Tyrrell.
‘I know a lot of the victims in the accident,’ he said.
Distraught friends and classmates broke down at the scene where five teenagers died. Many laid flowers and notes at the site