Aspiring actor Jessica, father Lars, mother Vivian and sister Annabelle died in 2017 when a drug-affected driver drove onto the wrong side of highway. 9News
Nearly four years after a deadly Boxing Day car crash, the inquest into the accident that killed Jessica Falkholt, her parents and little sister has concluded.
Crag Whitall, who was drug dependant and a serial traffic offender, slammed into the family's car killing them in a fiery crash.In the hours before he had lied to staff at Shoalhaven Hospital about running out of methadone to get extra Valium. Vivian's brother Paul Ponticello listened to four days of harrowing evidence, hoping it would lead to change.
Among the questions raised were should Whittall have been given a driver's license while on the methadone program; should he have been supervised while dosing; and why didn't hospital staff place a red flag against his name on the state-wide system.
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