Pictured: The 15-year-old girl killed in a high speed crash in stolen car
The 15-year-old girl who was killed when the stolen car she was driving hit a kerb and flipped in Melbourne’s north is being remembered as a sweet and popular teenager.
Haylee Glouftsis was driving a stolen Holden Astra when it crashed into a tree on Cooper Street in Epping shortly after 1am.
While the crash claimed her life, her best friend Emily Beford, who was a passenger, walked away with only minor injuries.
Tributes have flooded in for the teen, with friends remembering her as a popular young woman.
“She was friends with everyone, like everyone loved Haylee, and she was a really sweet person,” one friend told 7News.
Still too young to have a licence, she was driving the stolen car after a day at the beach when she lost control.
Friends described Emily as being in a “bad state” after she was found by paramedics kneeling over her friend who was ejected from from the vehicle trying to save her life.
“She was very distraught. The circumstances of this is horrific.”
Police investigations into the incident are ongoing.
Haylee’s death brings Victoria’s road toll to 57, 22 more than at the same time last year.
“The lives lost in Victoria affects us all, in particular the members of our office and members of Victoria police who have to go and engage the family members and try to explain the circumstances that have led to the death of their child,” Detective Sergeant Jarrod Dwyer said.
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