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Re: Sad News
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2009, 01:20:06 PM »
Not only Kayne's father but also his cousin were killed in the crash :(

DOUBLE TRAGEDY
BY REBEKAH HOLLIDAY
17/08/2009 12:24:00 PM

KEN Pettifer, father of Richmond Tigers half-forward Kayne Pettifer, has been killed in a single-vehicle crash near Wagga.

His 38-year-old nephew, Ross Inch, is also dead, after the vehicle in which they were travelling at speed slammed into a tree on Uranquinty Cross Road yesterday.

Mr Inch was alive but critically injured when emergency crews pulled him from the wreckage of the Holden Crewman utility.

He died hours later at Wagga Base Hospital where he worked.

The double tragedy has rocked the local hospital community, paramedics and health professionals as well as the young Richmond player who was reportedly travelling home to Kyabram in Victoria to be with his family.

A passerby notified police of the crash, about nine kilometres west of the Olympic Highway, shortly before 11am.

Unfortunately, family members arrived first, police said.

"However long the two men said they were going to be gone, they were well past that time and, out of concern, family members have gone to look for them," said Inspector Craig Ireland.

http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/double-tragedy/1597874.aspx