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All aboard! The Sunshine Model Railway Club is on track for a big showing this weekend, as it heads to Braybrook for the annual model train show. Group organiser Joe Saliba said lots of hard work has gone into this year’s display, with the set looking as good as ever. He said his love of trains got him originally involved, and he finds himself unable to step away. “I don’t know why I keep coming back, it’s like an addiction,” he laughed. “The club has been going since September 1996, I joined in January 1997 … I have always liked trains since I was about six.” The club meets twice a week in Albion, on Tuesday mornings and Thursday nights, and encourages anyone wanting to join to have a chat with members at the show. The team of more than 25 members buys and builds parts and bring them together to create an impressive model. To the club it in action, head to the Braybrook Secondary College basketball stadium on Burke Street, from 9.30am to 5pm on Saturday, August 3, and 9.30am to 4pm on Sunday, August 4. Gerald Lynch Sunshine Model Railway Club members Neil Marshall, Joe Saliba, Lenn Hunter, Ted Allan. (Ljubica Vrankovic) 420009_09
Boy ‘must be dead’: Mum By Emily Woods, AAP A child left with catastrophic injuries after a car ploughed into him says he was trying to save his three-year-old brother. “I was being a big brother to my little brother, I pushed him out of the way so he doesn’t get hurt like me,” Huseyin Pek, 8, told his mother after the crash. Thanh Ngoc Vo had arrived in Australia five days before the September 2023 crash and was practising driving around the block in his wife’s car when he hit the accelerator instead of the brake. The 49-year-old unlicensed driver ran over
the young children, who were playing in a puddle behind their grandparents’ home in Braybrook. Huseyin was seriously injured and has undergone several surgeries but may never walk properly again, while his little brother Burak Pek suffered minor injuries. The boys’ family said they were relieved “justice is served in our favour” after Vo admitted dangerous driving causing serious injury and was jailed on Wednesday, July 24. “I’m still angry but I came here for my son and I’ll be here for him on our next court date,” his mother Demet Aydin said outside the County Court.
“I don’t accept that he is sorry for what he did to my son.” Inside the court, a heartbreaking statement from Ms Aydin was read out where she described hearing the crash and fearing the worst. “Everything went silent, slow motion … all I could hear was revving and bang, bang, bang,” she said. “I thought Huseyin must have been dead.” Vo was pulling into the laneway when he accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brakes of the Toyota Prado, he told police. He pushed on the accelerator even further
and hit the two children and three parked cars. Vo ran from the scene to his home, near the scene of the crash. When police arrived shortly after, Vo fell to his knees in a prayer position and was arrested. Huseyin’s numerous injuries were described as “catastrophic” by prosecutors and required emergency surgery and almost two months in hospital. He suffered fractures and deep cuts to his head, including a 20cm injury from his left eyebrow to the middle of his head. ■ Continued: Page 4.
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