A mother of 11 children has been left devastated after her fiance was killed in a motorcycle accident just moments after she sent him a message urging him to “drive safe”. Hayden Selby, 31, was killed when a car, allegedly driven by his friend, collided with his motorcycle on the M1 Motorway near New Mount Pleasant Road, Mount Ousley, south of Sydney on July 19. Mr Selby’s friend was driving behind him and towing a box trailer as he guided her to the family’s new home when she allegedly crashed into his motorcycle.
Mr Selby died before emergency services arrived at the scene and Kirsten Anthony, 24, was charged with negligent driving occasioning death Mr Selby’s heartbroken fiance Katie Powell has shared the devastating final message she sent Mr Selby in the moments before his death. ‘Hayden was helping a friend down the coast move on Friday and I texted him in the arvo and said ‘’I love you, drive safe and take care of each other’’,’ she told 7News. Ms Powell grew increasingly concerned when she had not heard from her fiancee hours later, noting the silence was “out of character”.
The grieving mother and grandmother to two children said she received a phone call about 6pm from a friend of Mr Selby’s who delivered the devastating news. Ms Powell said everything has been “one big blur,” since her fiancee died. “I drop my kids off at school each day and after that I don’t know what to do,” she said.
“We have an eight-month-old and she won.