The unlicensed driver who killed a family of three in Canberra at the weekend had been in a coma only 10 months ago after crashing another stolen car.
Justin Williams was killed on Saturday night when the speeding car he was driving slammed into the vehicle containing Scott Oppelaar, 33, his partner Samantha Ford, 33 and their three-month-old son Brody.
Williams, 23, smashed into the car with such force that it slammed into a tree and split in two.
His passenger and girlfriend of two months, 18-year-old Skye Webbe, was airlifted to hospital and placed in an induced coma.
Now it has emerged Williams was already facing charges over another crash on May 14 last year where he wound up in a coma, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Ms Webbe’s mother Debbie yesterday said she was angry at authorities.
"I'm devastated — I want the police to pay for what has happened," she was quoted as saying.
Mr Oppelaar’s three other children — Tamika, 16, Blake, 14, and Tori, 12 — wept as they laid flowers at the scene of the crash on the Monaro Highway in the ACT yesterday.
"There are no words that could say how I feel ... I loved him so much," Tamika said.
"The police should have stopped it — my father wasn't doing anything wrong."
NSW police stopped chasing the stolen car moments before the horror collision happened.
The pursuit began in Queanbeyan shortly after 10pm (AEDT) after the stolen car sped past police conducting a traffic stop.
The chase continued across the border into Canberra but was called off when the stolen car ran a red light.
A short time later it ran another red light and struck the other car at the intersection of Canberra Avenue and the Monaro Highway exit ramp at Narrabundah.
Police will not say if the chase stopped at a set of lights just 50m from the crash scene, or a set of lights further up the road.
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