A 17-year-old has been charged with 10 offences over a fatal car crash that killed a teenage boy and injured five others on Sydney’s northern beaches earlier this month.
Six teenage boys, aged between 16 and 17, were travelling in a Toyota Hilux as it left the road and collided with a tree on Cabbage Tree Road, Bayview, shortly after midnight on October 7.
The passengers were taken to Royal North Shore Hospital, where the 16-year-old front seat passenger later died from his injuries.
The 17-year-old P-plate driver, who was airlifted from the crash to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a critical but stable condition, was arrested at a home in Bayview on Thursday.
“I would appeal for all drivers, particularly young and inexperienced drivers, to simply obey the road rules – they’re there for a reason,” Sharkey said. “Drive with due care and consideration to the right conditions that prevailed at the time.”
The mother of the 16-year-old who died remembered her son as an “amazing young man who was just starting to enjoy his young adult life”.
“He will be missed dearly,” she said in a statement the day after the crash.
Two teenagers died on the same strip of road in a car crash in 2003.
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