Father and son dead after shocking double fatal accident on Central Coast

A family has been torn apart by a shocking accident which killed a man and his 14-year-old son on the Central Coast. In his final moments, the father called his wife to say he’d be late.

A fatjer and son were killed after a horror crash on the Central Coast. Picture: 7NEWS

A man phoned his wife to say he and their young son would be late to meet her because they were bogged on the side of the road in torrential rain and waiting to be towed. Ten minutes later, the pair was dead.

The harrowing final moments of the man, 46, and his 14-year-old son were revealed as police continued to investigate how the freak accident happened, near Ourimbah on the Central Coast on Saturday morning.

The Daily Telegraph has been told the man and teenage boy were waiting for the RMS to arrive and tow them out of the mud, when a white Mitsubishi Challenger SUV lost control and slammed into their stationary black Holden Commodore – killing them both.

It is understood the pair were on their way to Sydney for the weekend, and the man had called his wife less than 10 minutes earlier to let her know they were bogged and would be late to meet her.

The woman, who was in Sydney, had started heading back towards the Central Coast to wait with them when police told her the tragic news the pair were dead.

A father and son were killed in a crash on the M1 Pacific Motorway near Ourimbah on Saturday. Picture: 7 NEWS

As crash investigators continue their inquiries, police are appealing for anyone who witnessed or has dashcam footage of the incident, as well as the events leading up to it, to come forward.

In particular, police would like to speak with motorists with dashcam footage who were in the location between 8.15am and 9am.

NSW Police Chief Inspector Colin Lott described the crash as a freak accident.

“We think, from initial investigation, that they have aqua planed and slid off into the grass, and being a two wheel car, it couldn’t get out of the slush,” he said.

The tragedy has been described by police as a ‘freak accident’. Picture: 7 NEWS

Dashcam photos posted on social media of the station wagon before it was hit showed it well away from the motorway, in a grass section between the north and south bound sections of the road.

“They were waiting for the RMS to tow them out when another vehicle has lost control, it would appear,” Chief Inspector Lott said.

The 27-year-old driver was not seriously injured, and was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and alcohol testing.

An off-duty police officer and a nurse who came across the horror crash site worked valiantly to help the father and son, who both died at the scene.

“My husband was one of the first on scene … he said it was the most traumatic things he’s ever seen in his life,” a woman posted on Facebook.

Another said: “On the eve of Father’s Day, could you think of a sadder thing to happen … RIP to those two men”.