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Premium Content  The aunt of a 21-year-old killed in a horror crash on Fatality Free Friday has revealed how their lives were irrevocably altered by her niece s death. Emily Barnett was driving to Gladstone to pick up her mail with a friend when a truck collided with her RAV4 on the Bruce Highway on May 29 last year. In a tragic twist her uncle Leyland Barnett - a well-known driving instructor in Rockhampton who had taught Emily to drive - had shared a post to his Facebook page that morning with the words: Let s make it a Fatality Free Friday . The family are now bracing themselves for the one-year anniversary of Emily s death, which aunt Davina Barnett said brings back painful memories of the day she was told her niece had died.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Fatality Free Friday yesterday (May 28) was a constant reminder to be aware of the fatal five causes of road fatalities that are: drugs/alcohol; speeding; fatigue; seatbelts and distractions.
Queensland is not off to a good start when into the first five months we have had 100 casualties (impacted families), when we had 76 the same time last year.
Lots of questions need to be asked in regards to why this is happening, despite all the road safety education, police enforcement and messages going into the community?
What inspires someone to get drugged or drink and drive onto our roads putting their lives and the lives of others at risk?