Antonio Desisto, Tyrese Bechard, Summer Williams, Lily Van De Putte and Gabby McLennan - all age between 14 and 16 - died just after 8pm on Tuesday in Buxton, southwest Sydney.
The Project host Waleed Aly has urged viewers to consider the teenage driver in a devastating ute crash that killed his five mates and the toll he will have to live with.
Veteran journalist Peter Overton has gone off script and made a plea for parents to sit down and watch the news with their children after a tragic car crash that killed five teenagers.