Last words to doomed boyfriend: Drive safe

The girlfriend of one of the three teenage siblings killed in a crash in far northwest NSW on Monday has revealed the last words she spoke to her boyfriend before he died.

Jack Pink, 19, was driving north in a truck full of furniture when he collided head-on with a southbound fuel tanker on the Newell Highway near Boggabilla just after 6am.

He died at the scene and his two sisters, Marina, 17, and Destiny, 15, who were travelling behind him, were also killed as their vehicle also hit the tanker and burst into flames.

The teens were part of a tight-knit family of nine.

Their father, Glenn Pink, was travelling ahead of the trio and heard about the crash on a two-way radio. Their Kiwi-born mother, Jaze, went to Auckland’s Long Bay College and has posted heartfelt messages of her loss.

In a Facebook post, girlfriend Monica Watkins said, “not only did I just lose my boyfriend today, but I lost my future”.

The moving eulogy includes her final sentence to Jack before he set off home with his sisters and father from Dubbo in central western NSW to Beenleigh, south of Brisbane.

“My last words to you were ‘I love you so much, goodnight and drive safe tomorrow’ and you told me that you loved me back and told me to have a good sleep,” Monica wrote.

Jack’s sister Marina would have celebrated her 18th birthday yesterday. Jaze Pink said on Facebook that she missed her daughter “more than words could ever say”.

Emergency services found Mr Pink at the roadside. He looped back when he heard the accident on a two-way radio and discovered the carnage.

“We saw a man laying in the middle of the road when we arrived but we came straight to the burning vehicles,” a responder said.

It is believed the sisters were towing a coffee cart.

A GoFundMe page set up for the Pink family had raised more than A$85,000 ($89,567) by 5pm last night, with a goal of A$100,000.