Malkeet Singh was in Australia for just a couple of months on a student visa when he died in a car crash in Sydney earlier this month.
Friends and members of Australia’s Indian community are joining hands to help the family of an Indian student who died in a car crash in Sydney last Sunday.
Malkeet Singh was with his two friends when the Audi sedan they were travelling in crashed into a roadside electric pole. Mr Singh was in the rear seat of the car and died at the scene and another man in his twenties who is also from Mr Singh’s hometown was left seriously injured.
Mr Singh had come to Australia to study business management. His body was repatriated to India on Sunday with help from India’s External Affairs Ministry. His friends say Mr Singh’s family in Jammu (India) secured a debt in order to fund his education in Sydney.
Malkeet Singh Source: Supplied
“We are donating as much as we can to help family back in India and also for his funeral,” a friend posted a message online asking for donations to Mr Singh’s family.
“Our target is to collect $50,000 to support his family and clear his debt.”
The 19-year-old driver of the Audi was charged with aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death among other charges. Police said speed was a factor in the crash.
Emergency services were called to Carrington Road at Londonderry on Sunday, 17 September 2017, and found a sedan had left the road and struck a power pole, bringing down power lines.
A friend of Mr Singh, Navneet was in the front passenger seat. He sustained multiple injuries and was taken to Westmead Hospital in a stable condition.
