The son of the man who ploughed into a Queensland café, resulting in the death of two people, has revealed his father is “heartbroken” over the deaths.
Brian Scutt, who lost control of his ute after suffering a heart attack at the wheel and crashed into a local café last month, awoke from his induced coma last week only to be told of the tragic outcome of his accident.
His son, James, revealed to the ABC that, when he awoke, and was told of the injuries that had resulted from his crash, he began to cry.
“[He is] pretty much heartbroken,” James said, “He was crying – he’s got no idea.”
In addition to the two deaths of Nicole Nyholt, 37, and Margaret Clark, 82, another 18 people were injured in the blast in Ravenshoe, Queensland, including Scutt himself, who suffered a spinal injury, internal bleeding and burns to 30 per cent of his body.
“He thought he was in hospital due to a kidney transplant he had years ago,” said Brian’s son, James, “We’ve informed him what’s happened and he’s taken it about as well as you can imagine. He’s obviously very upset that it’s affected everyone and we’ve told him that people have passed away.”
“We haven’t informed him who yet because we just want him to focus on getting better at the moment. We’ll cross that when it comes,” he said, “I know no-one’s really blaming him but mentally it’d be pretty tough to walk back there.”
