Young couple returning from holidays named as victims of tragic Dubbo crash
A young couple returning home from holidays during their university break have been named as two of the victims of Tuesday's deadly crash near Dubbo.
There have now been three deadly crashes involving heavy rigs in just two days in New South Wales, killing five people in total.
Hannah Ferguson was only a year out of school and in her first year of university, which is where she met boyfriend Reagan Skinner.
On Tuesday the young couple died together when the car they were driving in was crushed by a semi-trailer at roadworks north of Dubbo.
Hannah and Jahmaine Reid were from the same small town.
"She was just happy [person]... she's just always smiling," Mr Reid said.
He and his family were in another car, one of six vehicles struck, leaving 10 injured.
"We were sitting behind a truck, parked, and then I just remember waking up in an ambulance," the driver, Alannah Millgate, said.
Luckily, her young daughter came away with just scratches.
The roadworks were to improve and maintain the highway, but they have been halted as authorities investigate the tragedy.
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The truck driver, Robbie Crockford, has undergone surgery.
Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy of Traffic and Highway Patrol said Mr Crockford "has given us a version of events which we are investigating."
On Wednesday morning forensic investigators examined the truck's wreckage, while more police were going over rigs from another company after one of its drivers was killed in a fiery crash south of Newcastle.
They found a number of defects and one unregistered trailer.
"The examples we've seen today are unacceptable," Roads and Maritime Services spokesman Roger Weeks said after the inspection.
More raids are planned on both NSW and Queensland trucks, with warnings that trucking companies doing the wrong thing will have the book thrown at them.
"It's not good enough," Assistant Commissioner Corboy said.
"It's gone on far too long, with too many lives lost."
