- Adasyn Wood Savin, 16, died in a quad bike crash
- Holidaying in Tasmania from her home in NSW
- The death is a double tragedy for her parents
A teenage girl has been identified after she and a family friend died when their all-terrain vehicle collided with a utility truck on a highway while she was on holiday.
Adasyn Wood Savin, 16, was enjoying the school holidays in Rosebery, in Tasmania‘s west, when she hopped on the back of a Honda quad bike with a family friend, 38, just before 4.30pm on Saturday.
They were riding along the Murchison Highway when their vehicle crashed into a white Mitsubishi Triton.
Interstate tourists tried to save their lives, but both died at the scene.
The ute driver, 40, was uninjured and taken to the police station for mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
A family friend has now made a public appeal for funding so Adasyn’s mother can travel to Rosebery and bring her daughter’s body home to Newcastle in NSW.
They also revealed the situation is a double tragedy for Adasyn’s parents, who previously lost her little brother, Cooper.
The day after the crash, Adasyn’s father wrote a tribute to her on social media, saying: ‘To my beautiful daughter you were everything to me my world will never be the same.
Adasyn Wood Savin, 16, (pictured) died in a quad bike accident on Saturday
The teenager was travelling with a family friend on a red Honda ATV (stock image)
The crash took place along the Murchison Highway in Tasmania’s west (stock image)
‘I can’t live without you, they took you too early, l love you so much – life’s not fair.
‘I’ll see you again my angel rest in peace, I hate this world.’
In the fundraiser, the family friend said Adasyn was ‘having fun, spending time with friends, and making memories the way any 16-year-old should’ when tragedy struck.
They said her loved ones are struggling with the prospect of ‘facing life without their beautiful sister, cousin, and friend’.
‘No family should ever have to worry about finances while grieving the loss of their child,’ it added.
‘Every donation, no matter how small, will help ease the burden and allow Adasyn’s family to focus on saying goodbye and honouring her life.’
They also thanked everyone at the scene who tried to save her life, and said Adasyn had been ‘reunited with her brother Cooper Savin, together again, watching over their family from the stars’.
Loved ones remembered Adasyn as a ‘sweet’ and ‘beautiful’ girl on social media.
Adasyn Wood Savin, from Newcastle in NSW, is pictured with her older brothers
The teenager has been remembered as a ‘sweet’ and ‘beautiful’ girl
‘My sweet little Addy, rest in peace Princess,’ one person said.
‘Life is so unfair. Addy will be sadly missed by us all,’ another wrote.
A third person said: ‘Such a sweet baby girl to just a teenager, so so sad, I’m shattered.’
The deaths marked the first on Tasmanian roads this year.
All-terrain vehicles have been involved in more than 20 deaths on the island state since 2020.
A coroner’s report from 2016 found seven quad bike deaths between 2012 and 2015 were preventable.
