butwhatif?
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After a horrific P-plater multiple fatality accident, victims family learned of his death through facebook, rather than the police due to a 'delay in identifying him'.
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http://www.news.com.au/national/tee...n-facebook-first/story-e6frfkvr-1225827675170
These teens were my nephews very close friends. My nephew just turned 18 and got his license 3 days before this tragedy. He went out and bought a car the day after passing the test.
It was mostly wet weather that caused the accident- they don't appear have been hooning around.
ID should have happened immediately because they are all so close, and two of the passengers survived anyway.
I don't understand what the 'delay' in ID could have been because according to my nephew another group of friends was driving directly behind them and witnessed the accident.
Obviously it was an oversight amid chaos at the scene, but I really feel for the family thinking at first it must be some practical joke, and then learning that it was in fact true- and on their b'day.
so sad
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More at link:WHEN Angela and Maryanne Vourlis woke up yesterday, their 20th birthday, they logged on to Facebook expecting to read well wishes and greetings from friends.
Horrifically, the twins were confronted with the devastating news their brother Bobby, 17, had been killed in a triple-fatal accident, The Daily Telegraph reports.
He and two friends died when the car they were in crashed in heavy rain in Sydney early yesterday.
"I didn't get it. All these people were writing, 'RIP Chris Naylor' and 'RIP Bobby', and I thought: `What's going on?'," Angela said.
http://www.news.com.au/national/tee...n-facebook-first/story-e6frfkvr-1225827675170
These teens were my nephews very close friends. My nephew just turned 18 and got his license 3 days before this tragedy. He went out and bought a car the day after passing the test.
It was mostly wet weather that caused the accident- they don't appear have been hooning around.
ID should have happened immediately because they are all so close, and two of the passengers survived anyway.
I don't understand what the 'delay' in ID could have been because according to my nephew another group of friends was driving directly behind them and witnessed the accident.
Obviously it was an oversight amid chaos at the scene, but I really feel for the family thinking at first it must be some practical joke, and then learning that it was in fact true- and on their b'day.
so sad