Lorren Abrahams, 20, (left) and Jaydene Lucas, 16 (right).
DISTRAUGHT witnesses to an alleged hit-and-run accident in which two young sea cadets were mowed down by a suspected drunk driver have told of their horror at seeing their friends critically injured in front of them.
One teenage schoolgirl is on life support and another is in a critical condition after being hit in Humerail by a bakkie while walking to the Navy Sea Cadets training base near Kings Beach on Friday night.
Devastated family and friends of Jaydene Lucas, 16, who is on life support, and Lorren Abrahams, 20, have been sitting at the girls’ bedsides in Livingstone Hospital since the tragic accident.
Minutes after the 7pm incident at traffic lights in Humewood Road opposite the Humerail Shopping Centre, an accounts manager at SA Breweries, William Taute, 27, was arrested.
He was apprehended about 2km from the crash site in a damaged VW Amarok bakkie.
Lucas was still unconscious and on life support last night, while Abrahams, who is conscious but sedated, remains in the intensive care unit at Livingstone.
Abrahams is in Grade 11 and Lucas in Grade 10 at Chapman High School in Gelvandale.
They live a few houses apart in Fitchardt Road, Helenvale.
Abrahams’s cousin, Jamie Stuurman, 15, said he narrowly escaped being hit by the bakkie as he crossed the road with them.
“The traffic lights were red and the other vehicles had stopped at the intersection,” he said.
“As we were walking across the road, the bakkie came speeding up and hit them.
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