A distraught mother who lost two of her children in a horror high speed crash 17 months ago has shared the final footage of them shortly before they died. 

Angelina Kauffman’s children Alina, 24, and Ernesto, 15, were hit in a head-on collision minutes from home in Sydney’s south-west on September 1, 2023, when an oncoming car allegedly veered onto the wrong side of the road.

Just 44 minutes earlier, the pair were captured on CCTV leaving Kmart at Westfield Liverpool.

Alina had gone there to pick up her brother at the end of his shift, who had just started working there.

Ms Kauffman has only been back at the Kmart store twice since her children died.

One visit was to ask the store to track down the final footage of Alina and Ernesto, which she publicly shared on TikTok last week. 

‘When I walked in, I was shaking and I was crying,’ Ms Kauffman told Yahoo.

‘I just wanted to see them alive, because after that the only time I saw them was dead in the morgue. I just wanted to see my kids.’ 

Alina (pictured) and her brother Ernesto were killed in a head-on collision minutes from home on September 1, 2023, 

This footage of Alina, 24, and Ernesto, 15, leaving Kmart at Westfield Liverpool on the night of September 1 ,2023. They were killed just 45 minutes later.

This footage of Alina, 24, and Ernesto, 15, leaving Kmart at Westfield Liverpool on the night of September 1 ,2023. They were killed just 45 minutes later.

The footage showed Alina and Ernesto, who was wearing his Kmart uniform, walking out of the shop side by side. 

‘What got to me the most is… they’re walking out not even knowing that that’s the last time that they’re going to drive together, going to eat together,’ Ms Kauffman said. 

After leaving Westfield Liverpool, Alina drove 2.2km to McDonald’s on Elizabeth Drive, where at 9.14pm she called her mother and made a joke.

‘My daughter called me joking saying, ‘Mum I couldn’t find my brother’. I said, ‘What?’, she said ‘No, no, I’m just joking! He’s in the car with me, we’re at McDonald’s,’ Ms Kauffman recalled.

‘I said, ‘OK, I love you, drive safe’, and they said ‘Love you too, mum.”

That was the last contact with her beloved children.

Six minutes later, the siblings were just 100 metres from their Heckenberg home when they were allegedly hit and killed on Sadleir Avenue. 

The driver, Johnson Kokozian, 21 at the time, allegedly fled the scene. 

Brother and sister Alina (left) and Ernesto (right) are pictured playing together in a park

Brother and sister Alina (left) and Ernesto (right) are pictured playing together in a park

Alina and Ernesto are pictured in a photograph with their family dog

Alina and Ernesto are pictured in a photograph with their family dog

His licence had allegedly been disqualified at the time. He remains on remand in prison.

‘I can’t wrap my head around why did they die, especially this way. They were so close to home… it just doesn’t click in my brain,’ Ms Kauffman said.

‘They weren’t doing anything wrong, they were really, really good people.’ 

If they were still alive today, Alina would likely be working as a nurse while Ernesto would just have started Year 12. 

He wanted to be a social worker and help families and children, according to his mum.

Ms Kauffman wants tougher punishments for serious road crimes and has gathered 200,000 signatures for a petition. 

The NSW Law Reform Commission has been looking at her submission for the past 10 months, but she is frustrated at the slow pace of the bureaucracy.

Ms Kauffmann said she will not let her children become just another road death statistic.

‘I will never stop. I don’t want another family to go through this, this death sentence I’ve been dealt,’ she said.

‘The laws need to change, Australia needs to change. Enough is enough.’

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