Sarah Tonkin and her baby son were travelling on a road west of Melbourne when part of a tow bar, dropped by another vehicle, bounced and smashed through her car's windscreen.
"She was a beautiful girl, just one of those people who walked into a room and lit it up," he said.Loading"They said we need to speak to both of you and we sat down and they just told us straight out," he said.Mr Tonkin said his daughter's partner went to be by baby Austin's side in hospital on Friday night.
Detective Acting Sergeant Philip Frith, from the Major Collision Investigation Unit, said the tow bar component was believed to have fallen from a vehicle shortly before it was struck by the truck."It's quite a substantial piece of metal, in excess of 10 kilograms, so we don't think it was lying there long. Had a car hit it, it would have done significant damage, so we think somebody would've stopped to pick it up.
Those works were supposed to be finished by the end of the year, but have been delayed. Footage from Nine News shows no barriers at the scene of Friday's crash.
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