00:00 Victorian Regional Aircraft Company, AGAIR, is based here out of the Storle Aerodrome
00:07 and this community and this company is now reeling after the death of three of its members
00:12 who died in that light aircraft crash just south of Cloncurry in Queensland yesterday.
00:17 The aircraft was being used in mapping these bushfires in Queensland at the moment.
00:22 The victims are yet to be formally identified, but this incident has already prompted tributes here locally.
00:29 Absolute tragedy and our hearts go out to the families of those three victims.
00:34 They pride themselves in being a safe, hard-working company and this will be absolutely devastating to them.
00:41 Once the names are known, we'll do whatever we can to help them through this.
00:45 Now it's been a very tough 24 hours for Storle, this town in western Victoria,
00:50 which is also dealing with another tragedy which occurred across town yesterday at a motorsport event
00:56 where a young man, an 18-year-old, was struck by a car and killed.
01:00 The spectator who died was an 18-year-old man from Pimpineo,
01:04 while the driver, a 28-year-old man from Wendaree, has been assisting with police.
01:09 The ABC spoke with a few spectators today who witnessed this incident
01:14 and say they were narrowly missed being hit by this car and then ran to the scene to help.
01:19 It was a quick flash. I was just looking, turned, corner of my eye, see this car just ploughing through
01:25 and I just grabbed my mate, landed on the tyre and I just seen the car go straight past my foot.
01:30 It was pretty frantic. Everyone started screaming for a medic and just anything to help.
01:36 I'm traumatised now. And his last words were 'help me, help me' and that's what's going through my head now.
01:42 The Storle Motorsports Club, which promoted this event over the weekend,
01:45 has chosen not to comment on the incident while police are investigating.
01:50 So a very difficult 24 hours for Storle here in Western Victoria.
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