A three-month-old baby girl has tragically died in hospital after succumbing to critical injuries suffered in a car crash that also killed her mum and two-year-old brother.
Katrina Prahastono, 34, and her son Kai, were identified as the two victims who lost their lives when the Mazda SUV they were travelling in collided with a cement truck in the north-bound lanes of the Hume Highway, at Menangle Park, on Monday morning.
Three-month-old baby girl Ivy tragically died overnight from a car crash on the Hume Highway that also killed her mum Katrina Prahastono, 34, and her son Kai, two. Picture: SuppliedHer father Ian had been by her hospital bedside for almost the last two days hoping she would pull through. "We are all heartbroken... Kat was a beloved mother, wife, sister, friend," a family spokesperson told The Daily Telegraph.Emergency described the scenes at Menangle Park on Monday morning as"confronting" due to two fatalities and a trapped baby. Picture: Top Notch Video
Witnesses claimed the mother had been attempting a U-turn, but as the car entered the north-bound lanes through an emergency bay it was struck at high-speed.NSW Ambulance Chief Superintendent Mark Gibbs said first responders were confronted with a"challenging scene" when they arrived.The horror crash shutdown the Hume Highway in both directions between Narellan and Picton roads on Monday, with queues of traffic stretching for kilometres.
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