Jani was die dogter van Nicolaas Erich von Wielligh en Kobie Deysel.
'They were the most amazing girls': Young women who had been best friends since the age of four are both tragically killed in horror crash during dream road trip across New Zealand
Jani von Wielligh, from Adelaide in South Australia, and Natasha Strydom, from Waiuku in Auckland, were killed in a horror car crash on Tuesday. The two 20-year-old women had been best friends since they were four. They met when their families were living in South Africa.
Pair stayed in touch their whole lives despite living in different countries
They had been at Natasha's family home just hours before their death
Two young women who had been best friends since the age of four tragically lost their lives together this week when they were killed in a horror car crash.
Jani von Wielligh, from Adelaide in South Australia, and Natasha Strydom, from Waiuku in Auckland, were road-tripping across New Zealand when an oncoming car drifted across the centre line and into their vehicle.
The women, both 20, were driving along the State Highway 25 near Thames in Waitakaruru and Kopu, about 100 kilometres south-east of Auckland.
Fanie Strydom, Natasha's father told the NZ Herald the women had stopped into the Strydom family home in Waiuku on Tuesday before the crash.
Jani von Wielligh, from Adelaide in South Australia, (left) and Natasha
Strydom, from Waiuku in Auckland, (right) were killed in a horror car crash on
Tuesday
The best friends had been road-tripping across New Zealand and had
stopped in at Natasha's family home just hours before the accident
Jani and
Natasha had been friends since they attended kindergarten in South Africa
together as children, and stayed in touch when their families emigrated to
Adelaide and Waiuku respectively.
'They kept
in touch all the way through and visited back and forward,' Mr Strydom told the
NZ Herald.
'They were
both the most amazing and loving girls. They were such an example of a good,
perfect friendship.'
The best
friends were headed to Palmerston North to visit Natasha's university and check
out where she was living.
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Jani's father Erich von Wielligh also spoke of the strong relationship the two women shared.
Jani's father Erich von Wielligh also spoke of the strong relationship the two women shared.
'They were
friends from kindergarten and we moved to Australia, and the Strydom family
moved to New Zealand, but we kept contact and the girls were always visiting
each other on holidays.'
On
Wednesday Natasha's mother shared a touching tribute to her young daughter
alongside a family picture which shows the whole family beaming.
'Thank you
God for the best twenty years of my life!, Charmaine Strydom wrote.
Tributes also flowed from
friends and family of the girls, with one woman writing on Mrs Strydom's page:
'...my heart is broken for you and the parents of this other precious girl -
these two precious jewels are now in another heaven.'
Artikel: Daily mail
