Inside Andrew Symonds’ final hours before deadly car accident

Andrew Symonds had been fishing and browsing a area club soon just before his loss of life, but secret even now surrounds the remaining couple of hours prior to his fatal motor vehicle crash.

The Aussie cricket legend died on Saturday evening when his vehicle veered off the street exterior of Townsville, sparking an outpouring of grief and tributes from all over the globe.

Police are investigating the crash and will put together a report for the coroner.

The Day-to-day Mail stories Symonds and wife Laura had a short while ago divided but experienced remained shut as they lived apart in the months right before his demise. In accordance to the publication, Laura and the pair’s two youthful children, Chloe and Billy, experienced been dwelling in Sydney although Symonds was in north Queensland.

It has been uncovered Symonds stopped off at Brothers Leagues Club — which is a short distance from his property — on Saturday afternoon, nevertheless in his fishing gear.

Brothers Leagues Club CEO Justin Wilkins told the Every day Mail Symonds did not consume a good deal prior to leaving the location that evening.

“I’d say he put in the morning fishing prior to he got to the pub,” Mr Wilkins reported. “He stayed there right up until about 8pm, and then he left.

“It really is actually unhappy … He was a leading bloke and he’ll be skipped.”

Symonds reportedly went household just after leaving Brothers to pick up his canines but died a several hrs later on. His sister Louise instructed the Every day Mail “we just do not know” what the cricketer was undertaking driving late at night time on Hervey Range Road.

Nearby Garry Clark was with Symonds at Brothers Leagues Club on the Friday night time, declaring: “I shook his hand and experienced a chat.

“He was teasing me since his workforce the Broncos just beat my staff Manly that night and we were being obtaining a chortle about it.

“I am in shock. What happened keeps popping into my head.”

Symonds’ excellent mate, previous Australian and Queensland cricketer Jimmy Maher, stated the 46-year-old’s loved ones is “hanging in there” but are “all performing it difficult” as he broke down in the course of an interview with These days on Tuesday.

“It’s been difficult, Karl,” Maher said. “It’s absolutely challenging.

“Receiving up below (to Townsville) and getting off the plane, you’re utilized to him being in the automobile and he’d normally say, ‘Mahbo, you happen to be five minutes late’. I might say, ‘Mate, I failed to fly the plane’.

“That was the type of bloke he was and it definitely hit dwelling yesterday, strolling via that doorway to know he wasn’t likely to be there.

“If he had your again, he normally had your back again. He was loyal.

“Far away from the cricket subject, the things that we shared had been … items that I’ll overlook. Family things and all those factors — he is just a true mate.”

An autopsy has not yet been conducted as portion of the law enforcement investigation into the accident. The Townsville Bulletin reviews there is not a health practitioner in the area who performs people styles of treatments, with 1 needing to be brought in from in other places in Queensland.

Channel 9 reporter Mia Glover instructed FIVEaa radio on Monday you can “see that you can find a great deal of brake marks on the street from wherever his car veered off right before it sooner or later rolled”.

“At this stage police nonetheless have no strategy why he still left the highway,” she included.

“A single rumour that is heading all over by locals is he might have swerved to miss an animal but everything’s less than investigation at the moment.”

A witness, who uncovered Symonds in his auto just after he crashed, told the Courier Mail the cricketer’s two blue heelers refused to depart his facet.

“One particular of them was quite sensitive and didn’t want to depart him,” she mentioned. “It would just growl at you each and every time we attempted to move him or go around him.

“My partner attempted to get (Symonds) out of the vehicle, to put him on to his again.

“He was unconscious, not responsive and experienced no pulse.”

Symonds’ sister visited the scene of the tragic accident on Sunday, leaving a handwritten notice expressing her sense of decline.

“Absent considerably as well shortly!” the observe study. “Relaxation in peace Andrew.

“I want we had a single extra working day, just one far more phone get in touch with.

“My coronary heart is broken. I will often enjoy you my brother.”