Tributes have poured in for two friends who were killed while part of a motorcycle convoy making their way to Sydney for the famous Vivid light festival.
Doey Choi, 24 was riding on the back of a motorcycle with William Brown, 26, when their bike and a car collided.
The friends were members of the Sydney Motorcycle Community Group, heading to the light show with about 40 other riders when the fatal crash occurred.
Sydney Motorcycle Community Group member Julie Kaluzny said Ms Choi and Mr William were both such warm and joyful people that would be missed by everyone who knew them.
“They were our friends, we saw them week in week out,” she said.
“When they weren’t riding, they would come out in their car with us.
“They were very close friends.”
Ms Kaluzny said a lot of the other riders who were heading into Mrs Macquarie’s Chair for Vivid witnessed the collision and stopped to help their friends.
“There were so many bikes in the way of emergency services that we had to move because they were finding it difficult to get to the crash,” she said.
“It is something we are all feeling a lot of pain about.”
Ms Kalunzy started a tribute page for the pair on Go Fund Me to help the grieving families of Ms Choi and Mr Brown pay for funeral costs and give their friends “the send-off they deserved.”
“Doey was very outgoing, so full of life and independent,” she said.
“Wil was more quiet and reserved but both were so warm and compassionate in very different ways.
“They were both very warm people who will be truly missed by their family and friends.”
The page has already raised more than $14,000 that will be shared between the two families.
“It’s been so heartwarming to see the support we have received for the families,” she said.
“The families are shattered, they are both hurting and weren’t expecting to be in a situation like this.
“It hasn’t been just support from our group, it has been from the riding community in general.”