A 16-year-old Australian girl named Mieka Pokarier died in a car crash while on her way to see Taylor Swift perform with her family.
The crash also left her 10-year-old sister Freya in critical condition with brain injuries.
Mieka was a big Taylor Swift fan, and the family’s road trip turned tragic just 30 kilometers away from their destination after an exhausting 17-hour drive.
The last thing 16-year-old Mieka Pokarier had open on her iPad before she died was a Taylor Swift playlist she had spent hours creating. Mieka, her sister and her mum were on a dream road trip to see Swift concerts in two states when they crashed. > https://t.co/4xngSBMBJl pic.twitter.com/M0paGG9GgH
— Herald Sun (@theheraldsun) February 17, 2024
“When we opened the iPad, it was heartbreaking,” Mieka’s godmother Karleigh Fox said.
“It should have been a dream road trip,” Fox said.
“They had been talking about this since before they got the tickets. They spent eight hours refreshing their screens hoping to score tickets and were over the moon to land tickets at both Melbourne and Sydney venues,” she said.
Taylor Swift: Swiftie Mieka Pokarier's final days revealed before she was killed in crash in Dubbo, NSW https://t.co/rbZf8gloBJ
— World News (@worldnewstweet_) February 18, 2024
The family is facing a difficult time as Freya remains in a coma, and they are staying at the Ronald McDonald House due to the crash happening far from their home.
“We are playing her favorite Taylor Swift album ‘1989 Taylor’s Version’ on repeat in her room and telling her about the merch we are seeing people buying on line,” Fox wrote in a GoFundMe.
“We are keeping our girl in an induced coma for a few more days in order to give her body a chance to stay still and hopefully recover as much as possible,” she wrote.
“The real work will begin of course when she is conscious and we will then see a whole lot of anxiety and distress from her and potential carer burnout for Mama, as that’s the person our girl is going to want the most,” she wrote.
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