SCENE: Flowers were left on the side of the Pacific Motorway at Coomera where five young people were killed early yesterday morning. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
A MOTHER has told of her desperate phone calls to the young victims of yesterday's horror crash on the Gold Coast as they lay dead in the wreckage of a broken-down car they had been sitting in while waiting to be towed.
Elji Bayer, the mother of the sole crash survivor, told how she tried to ring the victims - including the parents of a one-year-old daughter - but "none of the phones answered".
Mrs Bayer was on her way to help after the blue Holden Statesman, carrying her 16-year-old son Thomas and four friends, broke down on the M1 at Coomera just after midnight.
She had rung the RACQ and was heading down the motorway from her Marsden home to make sure the car was safely towed.
But minutes after she spoke to Thomas and Natasha Maggs on their mobile phones to tell them help was on the way, the parked car was hit from behind and pushed almost 30 metres down the M1 before bursting into flames.
A memorial has been held among family and friends of the five people who died in a Qld car accident.
Young parents Natasha and Allan Sullivan, both 20, Kody Williams, 18, and his girlfriend Tiana Williams, 17, all died.
The driver of the red Nissan Pulsar which ploughed into them, Jordan Hayes-McGuinness, 18, of Ashgrove, was also killed.
Only Thomas escaped alive, climbing out through the shattered windscreen.
Mrs Bayer arrived on the scene to find the carnage.
VICTIMS: Kody Williams, Tiana Williams, Allan Sullivan and Natasha Maggs were travelling in the same car.
"Thomas and Natasha had talked to me only 10 minutes before," she said.
"They asked how far away the tow-truck was and said they were just chilling. I rang again about 10 minutes later because we couldn't figure out where they were, but none of the phones answered.
"We were 10 minutes too late. "
Mrs Bayer said not for a moment did she think her son and his friends would be involved in a crash while parked on the side of the road. Confusion turned to shock and horror as she came across the devastation.
TRIBUTE: Family and friends of the five people killed in yesterday's horror accident gather at the crash site to pay their respects. PIC: Adam Head
"There were 20 or 30 police cars, ambulances, fire engines ... they wouldn't let us through," she said.
"We told them we were looking for the blue car with our kids in it. We didn't think our kids were involved."
A family friend, who gave her name only as Cherie said: "We didn't understand how this could happen. They weren't hooning or in a police chase ... they were just sitting on the side of the road waiting for help."
Mrs Bayer said she had told her son all his friends had died after he underwent burns surgery in Royal Brisbane Hospital yesterday.
AFTERMATH: Five people were killed in this fiery fatal crash on the M1 at Coomera early yesterday morning. PIC: Nine News
"He said 'all of them?' I said 'yes'," she said.
"I don't think it's going to sink in for quite some time. They were all such good friends. It feels surreal, like a dream."
Annabelle, the one-year-old daughter of Ms Maggs and Mr Sullivan, has now been left an an orphan just weeks before Christmas.
"The death of five people in one incident is a tragedy, especially leading up to Christmas - you couldn't ask for a worse accident at this time of year," Gold Coast police duty officer Acting Inspector Tony Wormald said.
INVESTIGATION: Police remained at the scene of the accident for hours afterwards. PIC: Tim Marsden
"They (the victims) are all so young in the prime of their life. Unfortunately, they are now deceased."
Late yesterday, hundreds of the victims' relatives and friends carrying home-made crosses and flowers arrived at the crash scene to pay their respects.
There were emotional scenes as they wept and hugged by the roadside.
The police forensic crash unit is investigating.
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