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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A man charged in relation to a fatal crash at Midgee last year which killed Emily Barnett, 21, and caused her friend critical injuries, has had his matter mentioned in court for the first time on Friday.
Peter William Martin, 57, has been charged with two counts of driving without due care and attention causing death or grievous bodily harm.
His matters were mentioned in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on Friday morning.
Mr Martin was airlifted to Rockhampton Hospital in a critical condition with suspected extensive internal injuries and multiple fractures. He was later flown to a Brisbane hospital.