Finding out she was cancer-free should have been a day of celebration for NSW mum Kylie Gebert. Instead, her world came crashing down when she received a call no parent ever wants to receive. Her son William Ellis had been killed by a car while walking home from school. The seven-year-old was trying to cross the Sturt Hwy/Market St in Balranald when he was hit in December.
The family moved to Balranald, near the NSW-Victorian border, three years ago and said locals have been calling for better safety on the main road for years. The 110km/h speed limit on the highway drops to 50km/h throughout the town but, with no pedestrian crossings, community members — especially children and the elderly — put their lives at risk each time they cross the road, Gebert said. Gebert and Ellis want to save other families from experiencing the same pain of losing a loved one.