Buxton ute smash: Incredible gesture from father of dead teen
Lily Van de Putte, 15, died when a Nissan Navara ute smashed into two large trees on East Parade in Buxton in Sydney's southwest, just before 8pm on September 6.
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Lily Van de Putte, 15, died when a Nissan Navara ute smashed into two large trees on East Parade in Buxton in Sydney's southwest, just before 8pm on September 6.
"I was praying the last three Hail Marys of my rosary," she said. "I had the rosary in my hand when I was struck. I know that I was protected."
Gabby McLennan's funeral was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park at Leppington, in Sydney with distraught friends and family members embracing ahead of the service.
Lily van de Putte, 15, died in Buxton, south-west of Sydney, when a Nissan Navara ute smashed into two trees, split in half and killed everyone except the alleged P-plate driver - 18-year-old Tyrell Edwards.
Five teenagers have been injured in a single-vehicle crash in south-west Sydney just a week after a horror smash claimed the lives of five schoolmates on the outskirts of the city.