Best mates killed in horror Sydney smash

The two boys were killed after a silver Ford sedan slammed into a telegraph pole and a jacaranda tree on Maxwell Ave in Ashcroft at high speed on Monday, splitting the vehicle in two and throwing one of the young boys from the car.

The two men in the front of the vehicle are claimed by police to be Nicholas Thew and Anthony Morris, reports The Daily Telegraph. The pair allegedly remain on the run tonight.

Police believe the vehicle was travelling about 50km/h above the speed limit.

Braydan had just celebrated his 13th birthday on Sunday, the day before he and his best mate would be killed in the horrifying crash.

Graphic CCTV footage captured the moment two adult men – who, the newspaper reports, “played surrogate big brother roles” in their lives – pulled themselves from the wreck, stepped over the boys’ bodies and fled the scene.

One of the men could be heard yelling to his fellow front seat passenger “I wanna go home” as they ran, leaving the teenagers behind.

Nicholas Thew’s younger brother Dridyn told The Telegraph his family was horrified by the accident.

He said he and his mother had taken the young victims “under their wing”.

“Mum’s more worried about the two little boys, she tried to take them under her wing, she took Kaine and Braydan under her wing even though she struggles herself,” he said.

“They’re little ones I took under my wing to keep out of trouble, but I haven’t seen them for two days and look where they are now.

“My younger brother went around there and identified them. I’m heartbroken.”

Emergency services were called to Maxwells Ave in Ashcroft, in Sydney’s southwest about 10.50am on Monday after a grey sedan smashed into a tree and a pole outside a home.

Braydan and Kaine died at the scene. The boys, who were both rear-seat passengers, were reportedly thrown about 5m from the crash site.

CCTV footage of the crash, which is too graphic to show in full, shows the moment the car leaves the road, before smashing through a small tree in front of a home and ploughing into a power pole, splitting the car in two.

The rear of the vehicle ends up at the top of a home’s driveway.

Moments after the crash, an adult male can be seen on the recording pulling himself from the front wreck before moving toward where the rear of the car is.

He can be seen passing the body of one boy laying on the ground before pulling the other from the wreckage, pushing him to the ground and running back to help free another man from the front wreckage.

He returns to check on the child who had been thrown from the car, before putting his hands on his head and running away.

Locals could later be seen trying to help the Braydan and Kaine, before covering their bodies with blankets.

NSW Police are investigating the crash and the events leading up to it as they hunt for the two men who ran from the wreck that Assistant Commissioner Brett McFadden said was “clearly avoidable”.

Mr McFadden told reporters on Monday police were also searching for a third person who was riding a dirt bike that was seen travelling near the Ford at the time of the crash.

“We are looking for that driver to present themself so we can speak to him. We do not know what role, if any, he has played in the crash, but it is certainly an active line of investigation,” he said.

He urged the pair who fled the vehicle to come forward, warning: “we will find them”.

“They just need to present themselves to a police station, so we can engage with them and they can assist us with the inquiries and work out how this tragic situation unfolded,” Mr McFadden said.

“Two families are now going to be experiencing the absolute heartache that is to have some lives taken from them, which are clearly avoidable.”

“Just seeing the scene from the side of the road, just the absolute destruction of that vehicle, anyone that would have witnessed that crash would have no doubt been traumatised by it,” he added.

A crime scene has been established, which specialist police from the Crash Investigation Unit will forensically examine.

The crash happened just metres from the front door of a suburban home, although there are no further reports of other people hurt or vehicles or property damaged in the incident.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Anonymous reports can also be made to Crime Stoppers online.

Originally published as Braydan Collier, 13, and Kaine Bell, 14, have been identified as victims of horror Ashcroft crash, as adult passengers named