Cabramatta crash: Heartbroken parents forgive driver after children killed while crossing the road
Heartbreaking details have emerged about the moments before two young siblings were killed in a crash in Sydney’s west, as their devastated mother speaks out and forgives the driver responsible.
Five-year-old Katherine Tha and her one-year-old brother Harry were killed on Wednesday afternoon after they were struck by a car while attempting to cross a street in Cabramatta.
Their mother, Sok Tha, 33, who was pushing Harry in a pram, was also hit and sustained minor injuries. She has since been released from hospital.
‘We can’t sleep. When I close my eyes, I see my kids,’ Sok said at the crash site on Thursday, thanking the bystanders who rushed to help her.
‘We love them so much.
‘Why my kid die? Why, please, I hope it hit me, not my baby. I don’t want anything. I want only my kids. My daughter, my son, my life.
‘I feel my life is success but now empty. Nothing, nothing to me now. I can’t do anything.’
Their father, Vundy Tha, said: ‘I can’t describe it. Even the driver, I forgive him already.
‘Nothing can change, you know? Nothing can change. I can’t get my kids back.’
The grieving parents lit candles, touched teddy bear tributes and placed gifts, including the children’s favourite snacks, at the crash site.
The young family were struck at the corner of Gilbert and Joseph streets after walking back to their car following the school pickup. Katherine’s school is located just 200 metres away.
The Daily Mail understands Sok saw the driver approach the intersection, which has a Give Way sign, and believed the car had stopped to let them cross.
Family friend Patrick Te told the Daily Mail that Sok was crossing the street, as she does ‘every day’.
‘She’s seen him stop. She thought that he was going to give way and then he hit her, I guess, and then she was knocking on the window to tell him to stop, but he kept going and dragged the car, dragged across the road,’ Mr Te said.
‘She was saying that if he’d just stop, it’d probably would have been all right. It would have been not these massive injuries.
‘Sok was picking up Katherine from school. Katherine, who was in her first year of kindergarten, was excited to go home after just receiving an award.
