10 Aug 2021

Timaru crash: 19yo driver asked to call his mum while waiting for help to arrive - witness

From Morning Report, 6:50 am on 10 August 2021

A woman who was first on the scene of Saturday's horrific car crash in Timaru says the 19-year-old driver who was the sole survivor asked her to call his mother.

Melissa Bryce is trained in first aid and was able to assess the driver while they waited for emergency services.

She says when she arrived at the crash site it was so dark she didn't realise at first that the car had broken in two and that the driver's five teenage passengers were dead.

She describes what happened next.