SARAH Frazer should have spent the coming days celebrating O-Week at the Wagga campus like all the other first-year students, but instead her family will be burying her.
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The double tragedy which took the 23-year-old’s life, and the life of tow-truck driver Geoff Clark, near Mittagong last week, has devastated her family.
Sarah’s car had broken down on a narrow stretch of the Hume Highway when Mr Clark went to her aid, but the pair were hit and killed by a passing B-double, which spotted them too late.
“My beautiful sister was on her way to her next adventure and unfortunately for all of us she managed that in a way that none of us ever wished,” Sarah’s sister, Jess, wrote on Facebook.
She was due to start a photography course at Wagga’s Charles Sturt University (CSU) campus and was travelling down from her hometown of Springwood, in the Blue Mountains.
Her car was loaded with the possessions every new uni student needs, and less than 24 hours before the accident she told her aunty she was all ready.
“My car is pretty much all packed up except for my bed linen and a few loose ends,” she wrote on Facebook.
The family is now mourning the lost potential of a young life cut short.
“You never think this is going to happen to such an awesome and tight-knit family,” Sarah’s uncle, Pete Smith, wrote on Facebook.
“There are no words that we can say to express how we feel, but Sassy we love you and miss you forever,” Jess said.
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