A woman who ran for state parliament and local council was killed along with her daughter and partner in the weekend’s devastating Daylesford beer garden crash that left five people dead.
Five people died after an SUV ploughed through a Daylesford beer garden on Sunday evening.The driver, a 66-year-old from Mount Macedon, was not known to police and had no prior convictions. He returned a negative alcohol reading at the scene and remains in hospital.
Pratibha Sharma, 44, her partner Jatin Chugh, 30, and her daughter Anvi, 9, have been identified as three of the victims of the Daylesford crash. Singh said Sharma joined the group as a volunteer in 2020 during the pandemic and helped deliver food and groceries to people in quarantine. “She was very dedicated to helping other people,” he said.Late on Monday, police confirmed a 38-year-old Tarneit man and his 11-year-old son died instantly, while the man’s 36-year-old wife and six-year-old son were rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
“You can’t train someone for that,” he said. “It’s one of the most confronting scenes, I am being told, that experienced officers have been to. It may haunt them forever.” More than a dozen bouquets were dropped at the base of a small statue near the hotel, with mourners and well-wishers wiping away tears and trying to absorb what happened.
Kimmi Moscicki, 49, was seated across the road at the RSL, heard a loud bang as the SUV hit a light pole, lurched towards the roundabout and finally came to a stop. “I feel for the first responders who ... had a very confronting scene to deal with. They did a brilliant job, of course, as did the council’s staff.”
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