Man killed trying to escape gunman in car chase
A father of twin girls has been killed and three others hospitalised after their car smashed into a petrol tanker during a high-speed chase with a gunman on the NSW South Coast.
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A father of twin girls has been killed and three others hospitalised while trying to escape a gunman shooting at their car during a terrifying chase in NSW.
Four days shy of his 28th birthday, Daniel Clulow was out celebrating with friends on Friday night at a party in the Illawarra region.
Friends have told The Sunday Telegraph Mr Clulow, who lived in Berkeley with his girlfriend, decided to leave the party after his friend was in a confrontation with another group.
He jumped in a Ford Territory with his sister and two other friends, a young woman and a man.
Police have been told another car gave chase on the Princes Hwy at Albion Park and shots were fired at Mr Clulow’s car.
“I have been told they were being chased and someone pulled guns on them. His sister sped up to get away and crashed,” close family friend Leanne Shooter said.
A witness from a nearby petrol station confirmed hearing gunshots just before the crash.
“There were two cars that were chasing down the road and the behind car was shooting the front car,” she said.
“The first car crashed into a big fuel tanker and was wedged under the tank.”
The car smashed into a petrol tanker outside the BP station on the corner of Creole St at 2.25am on Saturday.
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Mr Clulow was killed and the passengers and driver, understood to include his sister and another relative, were rushed to hospital.
They remained in stable conditions on Saturday.
The arterial road was closed for several hours as police tried to piece together what happened. It is understood bullet casings were found near the crash site.
Ms Shooter helped care for Mr Clulow since he was 11 years old and said his children, including twin girls, were the “loves of his life”.
“They were who he lived for,” she said.
Mr Clulow, a keen poker player who went to Warilla High School, had been diagnosed with a serious illness several years ago, Ms Shooter said, and was in and out of hospital constantly.
“This is not the way we thought he would go,” she said.
“The doctor said to him he only had a couple of years to live but he was a soldier and a fighter. He fought right to the end.”
Mr Clulow’s mother was by her daughter’s hospital bedside at St George Hospital this afternoon.
No arrests have been made.
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