Mother's Day horror: Teens mourn mum from hospital as six killed in road tragedies
Two teenagers are mourning their mother's death and their father is fighting for life after their family car rolled down an embankment on Mother's Day, in one of a spate of fatal crashes on Victoria's roads.
The woman, aged 49 from Dandenong North in Melbourne's south-east, was travelling with her 19-year-old daughter, 15-year-old son and 52-year-old husband on Sunday when their silver Toyota collided with another vehicle at an intersection in Trafalgar, west Gippsland, just before 6pm.
The woman's death was one of six on Victorian roads over the Mother's Day weekend and into Monday morning.
The woman's husband was driving when he allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign, moving into the path of another car before the crash, which sent the family's vehicle rolling off the road.
The woman died at the scene, while her husband and the two teenagers were taken to hospital with serious injuries. The teenagers were sitting in the back of the Toyota.
'It's an absolute tragedy that we've got the loss of a life, a wife, a mother, on Mother's Day … killed in a crash that just should never, ever have occurred. Just a moment of inattention, a moment of distraction,' Detective Sergeant Mark Amos said.
'They've been there when they've lost their mum, on the worst possible day to lose your mum.'
The woman's husband was flown to The Alfred, where he was in a critical condition on Monday. Their son was flown to a Melbourne hospital in a serious condition.
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