The mother of a driver killed when his car collided with cattle in WA ’s Kimberley region has shared details of their final conversation. Perth man Rhys Dwyer — better known to his 11,000 Instagram followers as Freddy James — was behind the wheel of a Toyota LandCruiser that crashed on Great Northern Hwy in Mueller Ranges just after 6am on July 3. Dwyer, 34, suffered critical injuries and died at the scene, between Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing.
Later that morning, his mother received a knock at the door from police who delivered the devastating news. “I didn’t believe it. I still don’t,” Allison Walker told 7NEWS.
com.au “I was going ‘this is not real’.” Dwyer was heading towards Broome, midway through a holiday where he criss-crossed the state and even stopped in the Northern Territory, when the accident occurred.
It was a cruel and sudden end to the trip the carpenter and builder had been enjoying with mates. “I’d spoken to him the night before and I said ‘drive safely’,” Walker said. Walker said travel, cars and Dwyer’s three-year-old rottweiler Koa were his passions.
Pictures of her boy at the beach with his 4WD and dog in shot summed up his life best, she said. She described Dwyer, one of three siblings, as a generous and “spirited” family man who would jump at the chance to help others. “He had a heart as big as anybody.
If somebody needed him, he would be there,” she said. “He would go above and beyond.” Family and frien.
