Hume Highway crash: Katrina Prahastono was chatting on speaker phone before ... trends now
A mother killed in a tragic car crash along with her two children was chatting on speaker phone to a friend the moment she crossed into the path of an oncoming truck, it has been revealed.
Katrina Prahastono, 34, and her two-year-old son Kai Prahastono died instantly when their silver SUV turned in front of a cement truck on the other side of the Hume Highway at Menangle Park, south-west Sydney, on March 13.
Three-month-old daughter Ivy was pulled from the wreckage in a critical condition and airlifted to the Children's Hospital at Westmead but died two days later.
A relative revealed Ms Prahastono was chatting to a friend and 'got distracted' on the unfamiliar section of road and missed her exit.
One moment later she made the fatal decision to make a U-turn.
Katrina Prahastono (pictured left holding her baby, Ivy), 34, was running errands for a tradition Islamic celebration for Ivy before her and her kids were killed in a horrific car crash
'The friend she was speaking to has told police...Kat said to her "Oh no, I've missed my turn, now I'll have to try and turn around somewhere",' the relative told The Daily Telegraph.
'She had been to a playgroup earlier in the morning, and then she was getting ready for Saturday.'
Saturday would have marked the family's celebration of the recent birth of three-month-old Ivy at an Islamic ceremony.
Loved ones laid to rest Ms Prahastono, little Ivy and her brother Kai on Friday.
Hundreds of mourners flocked to Lakemba Mosque to say their final goodbyes to the family.
Dozens of men carried their green coffins, cloaked with gold-inscribed cloth and engraved with Arabic text, out of the mosque - first was Ms Prahastono, followed by the children.
After lowering one of his children's coffins into the hearse, Ilham Prahastono was surrounded and comforted by loved ones. Overwhelmed with emotion, he momentarily sat down.
A heartbroken Ilham Prahastono (pictured on the left of the coffin, wearing a black tie) carried one of his children's casket out of Lakemba Mosque on Friday
Hundreds of mourners packed into the mosque to say prayers for Ms Prahastono, Kai and Ivy
Hundreds of mourners (pictured) flocked to Lakemba Mosque on Friday to say their final goodbyes to the family
Devastated loved ones then headed to the nearby Narellan Cemetery to lay Ms Prahastono, Kai, and baby Ivy to lay to final rest,
