‘MY BOY ISN’T A REV-HEAD ... SOMETHING SET HIM OFF’
THE grieving father of a Gold Coast man killed in a high-speed crash says he believes there was more behind his son’s tragic death. Blair Carter died in a single-vehicle crash when he was thrown from his car and on to power lines at Pimpama late on Friday night. “I believe there is more behind it,” his father Angel Marks said. “He isn’t a rev-head. That’s just not him.” Mr Marks believes Blair was upset by a message he received, prompting him to leave a gathering in a rage just after 10.30pm. “Police also told me they believe something set him off,” Mr Marks said. “It could have been a snap chat or a text.”
THE grieving father of a Gold Coast man killed in a high-speed crash says he believes there was more behind his son’s tragic death.
Blair Carter died in a single-vehicle crash when he was thrown from his car and on to power lines at Pimpama late on Friday night.
The Bulletin later revealed Blair had been in contact with friends and step sister Shannen-Taylor Stephenson moments before the accident.
It is those texts, sent by Blair 15 minutes before the crash, that have his father, Angel Marks, asking if something more had gone wrong.
“He sent texts to my daughter and his friends before he died,” Mr Marks said. “I believe there is more behind it. He isn’t a rev-head. That’s just not him.
“I don’t believe he was suicidal. He was happy go lucky.
“The last text to his sister that night was about a girl. He wore his heart on his sleeve.”
Mr Marks believes Blair was upset by a message he received that night, prompting him to leave a gathering in a rage just after 10.30pm.
“His friends told me they were all having a good time together, he was laughing and then out of the blue he flipped to a raging bull,” Mr Marks said.
“Police also told me they believe something set him off. It could have been a snap chat or a text.
“He came back from the bathroom and he was different. They tried to keep him calm but he sped off. No one knows what was said to him.”
The 24-year-old was found at the scene of what paramedics described as a “traumatic” accident just before 11pm.
Blair is believed to have been thrown from the car, which had hit a power pole then veered up an embankment on the corner of Gawthern Dr and Yawalpah Rd. He died at the scene. Mr Marks said he was informed the car was “flying” at the time of the incident.
“Emotions were running through him, he made just that one mistake. It isn’t like him,” Blair’s father said.
“Police have got the phone, I can’t wait to see – whatever is on that phone is going to be what triggered him.”
Mr Marks drove nine hours from his Central Coast home on Saturday night in the hopes of seeing his son for one last time, but was unable to do so.
“The coroner refused to let us see him,” Mr Marks said.
“We were told he was thrown almost 22 metres and was unrecognisable, so I couldn’t see my son, we have to wait.
“Police walked us through the crash site, we saw where he went off the road, we saw the pole, we wanted to see and feel him.
“I just don’t really know he is gone, yes I know, but I am not ready to accept that yet.
“He was my boy, my buddy, he wore his heart on his sleeve.”