Max MacGregor killed when truck crashed through his bedroom wall


The NSW govt says plans are afoot to upgrade the section of the Pacific Highway where two people died today.








THE brother of a young boy killed when a B-Double slammed into their bedroom saw the headlights of the truck coming and managed to get out of harms way.


Max MacGregor, 11, was killed early yesterday when the truck smashed through his family’s holiday house at Urunga, on mid north coast of NSW.

An elderly couple who said Max and his brother Bruce, 14, were like grandchildren to them, today spoke of the harrowing moment the truck came towards the sleeping boys.

“Bruce has always been a light sleeper, but he was having some spry of a dream…he woke up and saw the lights coming, and got out of the way,” the family friend, Joan, said.

The boys’ parents Peter and Angela were asleep in the back bedroom, when the tragedy happened, about 5am.

“Those boys are like grandchildren to us. We spend every Christmas with them … Max promised to come and clean out my cupboards when he got home from holidays,” Joan said.

The MacGregor family, who live in South Penrith, bought the holiday house a few years ago and have been spending time renovating it, Joan said.

“You wouldn’t meet a nicer family,” Joan said.

Relatives are today expected to bring Mr and Mrs MacGregor, and their son Bruce, back to Sydney to make funeral arrangements.

Earlier, it was revealed that crash experts believe the man driving the ute was trying to get around a B-Double, when tragedy struck.

The driver of the ute, named as David John Levitt, 38, from Nambucca Heads, died instantly when he collided with a large banana-laden truck, at Urunga, early yesterday.

The B-double then careened off the Pacific Highway, and slammed through the side of a house, before coming to rest in the front bedroom of a granny flat, killing sleeping Max Macgregor, and narrowly missing his 14-year-old brother.

Police today said initial investigations showed the driver of the ute was at fault, and was possibly hurrying to get around the truck, when the accident happened.

In what would have been his first year at high school, Max had been excitedly counting down the days to a fresh beginning.

But the schoolboy’s dreams were ended in the most horrifying circumstances early yesterday when a truck crashed through his bedroom wall and killed him as he slept.

The B-Double collided head-on with a ute before careering into the MacGregor family’s holiday home, situated on the Pacific Highway in the sleepy town of Urunga on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

The truck smashed through two bedrooms in the house before coming to rest in a granny flat at the rear of a neighbouring property.

The driver of the ute was also killed instantly.

The 40-year-old truck driver and a 31-year-old passenger were admitted to Coffs Harbour Base Hospital. Police interviewed the driver and are still investigating how the crash occurred.

Max’s 14-year-old brother, who was sharing the bedroom with Max, survived the crash.

He somehow managed to flee the burning wreckage and escape with minor leg injuries. The boys’ parents Peter and Angela were asleep in a neighbouring room and also suffered minor injuries.

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