Heartbreaking news: Home And Away actress confirmed dead in tragic accident on the evening of 23/12/2024
The New South Wales coroner has found the driver responsible for the crash that killed a Home and Away actor and her family had consumed a cocktail of drugs including a “lethal” dose of anti-depressants.
Key points:
The coroner finds the driver responsible was impaired by drugs
Jessica Falkholt’s parents died in the collision, while the actor and her sister died later in hospital
The other driver, Craig Whittal, was also killed in the crash at Conjola in 2017
Jessica Falkholt died in hospital three weeks after the Boxing Day crash in 2017 which claimed the lives of her parents, Lars and Vivian, and her 20-year-old sister, Annabelle.
The crash occurred after Craig Whitall lost control of his four-wheel drive on the Princes Highway at Conjola before colliding with the Falkholt family’s car in the opposite lane.
The NSW State coroner Teresa O’Sullivan handed down the findings of an inquest which revealed Mr Whitall attended Shoalhaven Hospital on Boxing Day morning.
He was seeking methadone despite Ms O’Sullivan claiming he had been given sufficient doses to “cover the holiday period”.
