A heartbroken mother who lost her two-year-old daughter in a horror car crash eight years ago has shared advice to traumatised families affected by road deaths.
Katrina Brown was driving through South Australia's Yorke Peninsula on Good Friday in 2015 when her Mitsubishi 4WD ute left the road, flipped and hit a tree.
In a speech for World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, Ms Brown confessed: 'I will bear mother's guilt until I meet her again.'
For the 2015 Easter weekend, she, her husband Kingsley and their two children - Indie Rose and then five-year-old son Taj - were holidaying at Corny Point, a three hours' drive from Adelaide.
On April 3, Ms Brown took Indie Rose and Taj for a drive to visit nearby family while Mr Brown went fishing.
Heartbroken mother Katrina Brown (above) said she did 'nothing wrong' to cause the crash but confessed: 'I will bear mother's guilt until I meet her again'
Two-year-old Indie Rose Brown (above) was killed in a car crash in 2015, her mother lost control of the car on an unsealed road
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<!- - ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v8/us/news/none/article/other/mpu_factbox.html?id=mpu_factbox_1 - ->AdvertisementThe devastated mother said she 'wasn't doing anything wrong' at the time of the crash.
Brown had not been drinking, she had both hands on wheel, was driving within the speed limit and everyone in the car had seatbelts on.
'My guilt is that of my own motherhood, that I couldn't protect my daughter - not that I was doing something wrong,' she said, The Advertiser reported.
But when she approached Point Turton on the North Coast Rd, the vehicle lost grip with the road.
'I did notice it had recently been graded, and I was a bit conscious of how slippery it was,' she previously told 9News.
'We slid for what felt like an eternity until we came to a really abrupt stop and as it turned out, it was a tree.
'When I came around, I remember shouting, 'Taj, Indie, Taj, Indie'.'
Her young son cried out but Indie did not make a sound.
'It was at that moment I saw that Indie had died on impact,' she said.
'We didn't in our wildest dreams imagine that our child would be taken from us.'
Ms Brown (pictured with Indie Rose) encouraged everyone affected by road trauma to reach out to support groups, saying it will 'make the world of difference' to their grief
Katrina Brown was driving through South Australia 's Yorke Peninsula on Good Friday in 2015 when her Mitsubishi 4WD ute left the road, flipped and hit a tree
'I've spoken to a couple of parents and I think it's really evident … you lose a sense of your old self, the old Kat is not here today,' she said.
Ms Brown applauded SA Police for the support it provided to her and her loved ones following the crash.
She has since begun volunteering with the Road Trauma Support Team of South Australia and encouraged anyone suffering from the effects of a road death to reach out, saying it will 'make the world of difference'.
'You have to rebuild yourself because you're a shell and you rebuild yourself to be people who can coexist in a society without your loved one.'
So far this year in SA, 101 people have lost their lives in 94 fatal crashes compared to 71 in the whole of 2022.
Another 747 people have been seriously injured in 645 road incidents across the state this year.
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