A young man on his way home in an Uber after celebrating his birthday has been named as one of the two innocent people killed in a horrific high-speed crash.<\/p>\n
Seanus Duignan was a passenger in a blue Toyota Camry when it was hit by an Audi which had crossed onto the wrong side of Rocky Point Road at Sans Souci in Sydney\u2019s south.<\/p>\n
Mr Duignan and the Uber driver were killed instantly, as was the driver of the Audi, since named as 42-year-old Tamati Gilbert.<\/p>\n
Police had earlier responded to a call for a welfare check on Mr Gilbert, but he sped off in the Audi after police approached his home in Second Avenue, Gymea Bay, at 12.25am.<\/p>\n
Just 10 minutes later, Mr Gilbert lost control of the car, crashing through a conncrete barrier before flipping and landing on top of the Toyota.<\/p>\n
The Toyota was being driven by an Uber driver who had been hired by Mr Duignan to drive him home from a concert he had attended to celebrate his 28th birthday.<\/p>\n
Following the tragedy, Mr Duignan\u2019s brother Sean took to social media to pay tribute to his sibling.<\/p>\n
He wrote: \u201cAbsolutely devastating news rest easy little brother can\u2019t believe your (sic) gone life isn\u2019t fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cLove you forever sea mouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mr Duignan\u2019s grieving mother, Kim Duignan, made an emotional call for the crash to be fully investigated.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Saturday Telegraph, she said: \u201cThere needs to be a complete inquest into what caused this crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want any other parent to have to go through this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigations into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing, with specialist officers from the Crash Investigations Unit involved.<\/p>\n
Detective Acting Superintendent Graham Hibbs said it was a \u201chorrific scene\u201d, with between 20 and 40 people nearby who witnessed the crash.<\/p>\n
He said officers would examine whether \u201cconsiderable speed\u201d was a factor in the crash, and whether the driver of the Audi was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really feel for the families of all three persons who were involved in this incident and their loved ones,\u201d Act Supt Hibbs said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there were many cars on the road at that time, and [it was] extremely unlucky for the people involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local residents rushed to the scene in a desperate bid to help, some armed with fire extinguishers after a fire broke out in the engine bay of one of the cars.<\/p>\n
Following the tragedy, Rocky Point Road was closed for several hours in both directions between Fontainebleau Street in Sans Souci and Holt Road in Taren Point.<\/p>\n
It re-opened shortly after 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man on his way home in an Uber after celebrating his birthday has been named as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,187436],"class_list":["post-690010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-newswire-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}