By Ann Marie
THE Point Cook P-plater involved in a head-on crash after driving the wrong way down the Princes Freeway had taken drugs before the collision, police say.
Sgt Peter Bellion of the major collisions investigation unit, said initial toxicology reports showed Lindsay McPhee, 19, had taken a non-prescription drug known as GHB, or liquid ecstasy, before the collision.
The teenager was taken off life-support at the request of his parents, Cheryl and Wayne McPhee, last Thursday night.
He died without regaining consciousness after suffering serious head and abdominal injuries in the smash.
McPhee’s Commodore Berlina crashed into another vehicle carrying two Geelong tradesman to their night-shift jobs early on 16 February.
Both Geelong men, Damian Willey, 29, and Paul Stuart, 31, died at the scene.
Cheryl McPhee said her son was an ordinary boy, and the family, an ordinary family.
“He wasn’t nasty or bad; he was actually a really lovely kid,” she said.
Mrs McPhee said she had a premonition the night of the crash that something was wrong.
“About 3 o’clock I got up and looked in his room because something didn’t feel right,” she said.
Mrs McPhee publically asked for the families of the other two dead men to forgive her son.
“I know it’s very difficult, but I do hope they’ll forgive him one day,” she said.
She said her son would have agreed with the family’s decision to donate his organs to help other families.
“It he had been alive to make that decision, he absolutely would have wanted that,” she said.
The youngest of her three sons, McPhee had gone to Altona West Primary School and Williamstown Secondary College.
Sgt Berlina said the coroner will make a formal finding in several months after a more thorough police investigation.
