Teen Dies In Head-On Collision Two Hours After Passing Driver’s License Test

Just two hours after passing her driver’s license test, an Australian teen was killed in a head-on collision with her best friend, according to Mirror.

Tori Earl, 18, was elated to have passed her driver’s license test on Thursday, and told her entire family about the good news. She even told her younger brother that she was going to pick him up to take him shopping later that day. However, she never made it.

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Shortly after 4 p.m., as Tori and her best friend, Kendall Lee Burke, 19, were travelling on New England Highway, they were rear ended by a semi-tractor as they were changing lanes, which caused their vehicle to swerve into the adjacent lane.

Tori and her best friend Kendall were hit head-on, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.

“She was excited to show everyone that she’d got her license, her friends, and us her family,” Tori’s brother, Garry Earl, told reporters at Sydney Morning Herald.

“She was so proud to get her license… it was the happiest day of her life.”

“They were two young girls just starting out their lives,” said Kendall’s grandmother, Christine Burke.

“I have never seen Kendall so happy. The girls had just started living together and had been best friends for years and were both really getting on with things. Tori had only recently lost her mother.

“I can’t really believe I will never have Kendall back.”

Wanting to start a new life, Tori and Kendall moved to Singleton where they shared a house together.

In November, Tori’s mother passed away due to an illness, and her father died when she was just a child, which caused her to become close with her eight siblings.

Tori’s family stated in a statement that after losing both parents, “she still had the strength each day to go on.”

“We all have the biggest hole in our hearts… she had a lot of nephews and nieces who adored her and who she often looked after, the kids are shocked their favorite aunty is no longer here.”

The family is now concerned about the highway the girls were killed on. Garry’s partner, Amy McGuinness, stated: “There’s no markings, there’s no lines. It’s frightening. I nearly had an accident coming over the crest myself.”

“Something needs to be done; this is a young girl who has just got her P’s…it’s hard to comprehend,” Garry Irwin, a family friend, added.

The man driving the semi-tractor that rear-ended the Suzuki Baleno the teens were driving in had stopped following the crash. The driver of the vehicle that crashed into the teens stopped as well.

Both drivers had since taken a blood and urine test.

The investigation is ongoing.

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