The families of three women killed in a horror car crash caused by a 13-year-old in a stolen Mercedes Benz have shared what life is like without their loved ones.
Susan Marcus cleans her teenage daughter Kelsie Davies' bedroom every day but refuses to wash the sheets she slept in before the horror crash on April 30.
Mrs Marcus and Jeanette Robertson, mother of much-loved nurse Sheree Robertson, are united in their grief over the horror crash in Maryborough.
On April 30, 17-year-old Kelsie Davies, 29-year-old Michale Chandler and 23-year-old Kaylah Behrens, friends from Reach Fraser Coast Church, went to see a movie in Hervey Bay, on the Central Queensland coast.
Their car was hijacked by a Mercedes-Benz, stolen by a 13-year-old boy from Bundaberg, and shunted into another car driven by 52-year-old Sheree.
Three women – 17-year-old Kelsie Davies, 29-year-old Michale Chandler and 23-year-old Kaylah Behrens – were killed by a 13-year-old driver in a stolen car in a horror crash in Maryborough, Central Queensland, on April 30 (pictured , flowers left at the crash site)
Susan Marcus, the mother of 17-year-old Kelsie Davies (above), cleans her daughter's bedroom every day but has not washed the sheets she slept in before the crash
Ms Davies, Ms Robertson and Ms Chandler all died in the crash.
This week the mothers of Mrs Davies and Mrs Robertson told the Courier mail how they have struggled to move on since the incident.
Mrs. Marcus has kept her 17-year-old daughter's bedroom in pristine condition. Her teddy bears, photo wall and clothes are all kept tidy.
The room still belongs to her daughter and no one else is allowed to sleep there.
“You can try to mask it, you can keep yourself busy, but the thoughts always go back to that and it's the most horrible feeling,” Ms Marcus said.
“I know a lot of people who have lost children, it's a tough job.”
Mrs Robertson, Sheree's mother, has not scattered her ashes almost eight months after the crash because she does not want to let her go.
Jeanette Robertson, the mother of 52-year-old nurse Sheree Robertson (above), hugs her daughter two teddies every day – one from her bedroom and another from her wrecked car
Mother of two young boys, 29-year-old Michale Chandler (above), built a playroom for her church just two months before she was murdered
Every morning she sits by her daughter's photo and hugs two of her stuffed animals: one from her bed and another pulled from her car.
'I don't know how to let it go. Every day, every morning I think about her, not a day goes by that I don't think about her,” she said.
Mrs Chandler worked at Reach Fraser Coast Church with her husband Matt.
She left behind two young boys.
Just two months before Mrs. Chandler died, she built a playroom at the church for parents and children to use every Sunday.
Pastor Darron Hayhoe said the community has done its best to support the victims' families since the devastating crash.
“Many people I have known have come out of this situation forever broken,” he said.
He said the only survivor of the crash other than the 13-year-old driver, Kaylah Behrens, has thrown herself into the church community since recovering from serious injuries.
Pastor Hayhoe says she feels both grateful that she survived the collision and guilt that she was the only one.
The only survivor of the crash – aside from the 13-year-old driver, Kaylah Behrens bounces between gratitude and guilt that she made it out alive
“She will undoubtedly need help with that for the rest of her life,” he said.
The 13-year-old driver pleaded guilty last month to three charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and one charge of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
He is expected to be sentenced next year.
