Devastated dad's message after daughter filmed on Snapchat before crash death
The devastated father of a young woman, who was apparently filmed on Snapchat driving moments before she was killed in a head-on crash, has begged others to not use their mobile phones while in the car.
Shania McNeill, 21 was driving with friends in Berkshire Park, in Sydney’s west, during the early hours of Sunday when she was involved in a head-on crash.
In Snapchat video obtained by The Daily Telegraph, a woman who appears to be Ms McNeill is seen behind the wheel of a car moments before she was killed in the crash.
Three days after he lost his daughter, a heartbroken Lee McNeill has pleaded for other young drivers to take their lives seriously.
Mr McNeill told 9News he wished he could have told his daughter he loved her before the tragedy.
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Shania’s mother is expected to give birth to another child on Wednesday on the Gold Coast.
Mr McNeill said he got the “knock at the door that every parent dreads” before he learned of his daughter’s death.
“Three-thirty, four o'clock in the morning, that pounding on the door, that sound down the hall... it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life,” he told 9News.
The Snapchat video appears to show the young woman driving and screaming with friends before the crash.
"I think it was reckless of them all to be, sort of, distracting each other," Mr McNeill told 9 News.
Friends Hazel Wildman and Faeda Hunter, who also in the car and behind the camera, were injured in the crash.
They pulled the camera out again later to share a selfie from their beds at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital.
Officers have not ruled out that alcohol possibly played a part in the tragedy, and said drinking and distraction was a “deadly mix”.
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