A personal trainer and gym manager has been identified as the “out of control” driver who crashed his Audi into an Uber vehicle on Saturday, resulting in three fatalities in Sydney’s southern suburbs.
After escaping a personal welfare check at his house, Tamati Gilbert, 43, drove at a “considerable speed,” crashed into a blue Toyota Camry, and flipped his Audi on Rocky Point Road in Sans Souci.
Seamus Duignan, 28, was being driven home by Uber driver Shoaib Hussain, 22, after a concert for his birthday. This was Hussain’s last task of the evening.
Gilbert, Mr. Hussain, and Mr. Duignan all passed away there.
Gilbert, a veteran of the fitness business, had abruptly left his home after his partner reported “grave concerns” about his mental health to the authorities.
Gilbert was seated in his Audi in the driveway when police arrived at the Gymea Bay residence at around 12.25 in the morning to perform a welfare check.
Ten minutes later, police received information that an Audi had crashed over a concrete barrier 13 kilometers distant in Sans Souci and fallen on a blue Toyota Camry. He drove off before the officers could speak to him.
Before the collision, CCTV captured the Audi speeding. The flaming moment of collision was captured in separate video.
Prior to the catastrophic collision that claimed his life as well as the lives of Uber driver Shoaib Hussain, 22, and Seamus Duignan, 28, Tamati Gilbert drove his Audi at a fast pace. He is pictured above with his sister Renata, who claims her family is saddened by his passing.
According to his friend, Shoaib Hussain, 22, is “kind, nice, and hard-working.” He started driving for Uber in order to send money home to his family in Pakistan, who are “completely broken” over the murder of their son.
The two guys inside the blue Toyota Camry were killed after Tamati Gilbert, 43, drove at “considerable speed” and flipped his Audi on Rocky Point Road in Sans Souci.
After one of the cars caught fire due to the hit, shocked onlookers attempted to assist. One woman reported that she “grabbed the fire extinguisher, gave it to somebody and just checked that people weren’t trapped inside.”
The Daily Mail has heard that the Uber driver was a Pakistani social work student who began driving on the weekends to support himself and send money home to his family, who are “completely broken” by the news of his passing.
Shoaib was described as “hard-working, kind, and nice” by his friend Qasim Malik.
Seamus was ‘a good man, brother and uncle’ who was ‘never in difficulty, just a good man who loved a laugh,’ according to Sean Duignan.
Renata, Tamati Gilbert’s sister, wrote on Facebook that her family was “absolutely devastated, heartbroken, and rocked by his early passing.”
Gilbert claimed to have multiple certifications as a fitness coach and to have been “in the fitness industry for a long time and lost a lot of weight doing so” on his LinkedIn page.
Kim Duignan, the mother of Seamus Duignan, has called for a thorough investigation into the collision that killed her son. “There needs to be a complete inquest into what caused this crash,” she stated.
Fitness trainer Tamati Gilbert crashed his Audi into Shoaib Hussain’s Camry, killing both Seamus Duignan (above) and the Uber driver.
After one of the cars caught fire due to the hit, shocked onlookers attempted to assist. One woman reported that she “grabbed the fire extinguisher, gave it to somebody and just checked that people weren’t trapped inside.”
Tamati Gilbert holds multiple certifications as a fitness coach and has been in “the fitness industry for a long time and lost a lot of weight doing so.”
According to Mr. Malik, Shoaib’s family wanted his remains returned to Pakistan after forensic tests were finished so they could bury him at home.
Mr. Malik remarked, “He came here when he was eighteen, and he was a kind and nice person, and he was still only young.” For his friends and family, it is a huge loss.
As Shoaib was ready to pick up Mr. Duignan and drive him home as the final task of the evening, Mr. Malik had been chatting with Mr. Hussain just prior to the collision.
