Policeman called to crash site finds girl who died is his daughter

IT’S the phone call every parent dreads.

But when Casino police called the father of a toddler killed in a horror road smash on Friday, they were calling one of their own.

Richmond police sergeant Steve Underhill rushed to the scene of the two-car crash on the Bruxner Highway in NSW to find his two young daughters in the wreckage.

The car they were travelling in had been ripped in half.

Sgt Underhill’s four-year-old girl died at the scene, while his two-year-old was rushed to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Hospital in a critical condition.

In a ray of light for a town gripped in grief, the girl later emerged from a coma.